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Finbarr O'Reilly and the Fabulist Art of the Israeli Bomb Shelter
What strains also is the actual imagining of a "promised" land -- with the delusional notion that, once the air raid siren goes off, residents simply meld into the Zionist dream.
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Bad Westerns: That Shot of the Bundy Posse Observing the Anthem
What may be a moment of reverent patriotism is also an image of the last cowboys mourning their own demise.
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Juxtaposition of the Day: Pro-Russian Separatists Meet the NRA
Parents, babes and politial aims
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Hash Tag Mining: NBA Clippers vs. Owner Donald Sterling
It's black because that's the issue.
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A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats ... and Other Modern Myths
If the National Geographic photos are aimed at social reform, they document something else as well: the shift in modernism from a utopian to a dystopian trajectory.
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Viral, But Why? That Photoshop Swarm over LAX
I'm entranced, too, but I'm wondering why architectural photographer, Mike Kelley's beautiful and meticulous LAX photoshop image, "Wake Turbulence," went viral.
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Gaza Riding Club: The Seduction of Seeing Palestinians Better Off
The potential existence of an elite class in Gaza – as much as America worships wealth and the demonstration of it – makes the Gazans not only look more normative and less like "the other."
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On NYT Mag's Obama/Gay Marriage Cover and that "Projectile Bouquet"
The way that Obama agonizes over his trajectory, perhaps the mixed metaphor is a direct hit.
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Occupying #MyNYPD
How fitting what might be the first social media mass demonstration is playing out on truly communal real estate.
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Ambassadors! They’re Just Like Us! A Day in the Life of Samantha Power
Photo spreads like these are part celebrity profile and part Horatio Alger myth.
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Boston Marathon 2014: Back to (the New) Normal
Funny how getting back on track looks a lot like war time.
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SI's #BostonStrong Cover
I imagine it's almost sacrilegious to to get too analytical about this, but it's interesting just how much the bombing seems to have threatened the psyche of this city.
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Picture of the Day: Manly Beach
Of course, it's a typical example of sex as a news photo selling device, but it's notable, too, for the way it reads differently in the US.
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Drone Visuals, Selfies and Human Agency
The drone and the selfie inhabit different ends of an image spectrum. Both in terms of production and consumption, the selfie is all us and the drone is all them. We know us well. We don’t know them at all.
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The Sound and the Furry: Is This a News Photo?
Specifically, a news photo delivers news content -- in contrast to "human interest photos" or photos that operate as "infotainment."
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Todd Heisler's Border Vision
What Heisler offers us is a larger eye – the reality that America and Mexico have a more unusual course and unavoidable interconnection.
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One Year Later: Josh Haner’s Pulitzer Winning Boston Marathon Bombing Photos and the "Terror War"
What makes Josh Haner's Pulitzer Prize winning photo story so powerful is the way it so closely and painfully evokes America's "War on Terror."
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Beyond the Photoshopping: Privilege, Poverty and the Washingtonian's Jay Carney Spread
If Jay Carney is the public face of the Obama administration, what his family is doing here -- the Washington area being the richest in the nation -- is demonstrating an obscene degree of plenty.
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Watch the BagNews Salon: The Visual Framing of Kiev and the Battle for Independence Square
The purpose of this BagNewsSalon discussion is to better understand the visual dynamics and editorial framing of the battle for control of Ukraine and the events in Independence Square.
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Juxtaposition of the Week: Pakistan Toddler Criminals, Not Bug Splats
Two different photos from Pakistan featuring children have circulated widely.
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