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If You Can't Join 'Em, Outshoot 'Em: Dharapak, AP Take On White House Over Dalai Lama
What the administration doesn't seem to be considering is that the press, beyond the venting and the resentment, is going to raise its game.
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On that Photo from the Hope Wall at Kuala Lumpur International Airport
What is a face but a map, its own mystery.
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As Facebook Pics of Malaysia Air Passengers Land on Buzzfeed ... Hijacked Twice?
What are the ethics of of high traffic news and infotainment websites using a person's Facebook image if that person was on an erased airliner? Is it just a case of, "well, you should have thought of that before you disappeared?"
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Winner of Last Week’s "Most Paranoid CIA-Feinstein News Photo" Contest
And the winner goes to Mark Wilson and Getty Images for the "cop with the arms crossed" photo. Clearly that expression catches the enforcement officer dead-to-rights surveilling the Senator.
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Random Acts of Photography ... and Public Good
Whatever else happened on February 25th, there was someone in Vancouver who wasn’t working on branding, who wasn’t worried about others free-riding, who was willing to spend time and money and effort to improve the commons.
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On Ukraine, that Viral Kerry-Lavrov Photo and More Complex Feelings
From my perspective, I think this is a bold and honest photo for the White House to publish. I imagine the White House is confiding there is no way we can take this head on.
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Photo Op-date: Obama at the GAP
If the White House has been nothing but masterful, consistent and highly disciplined in its photo ops, Monsivais’s shot down the checkout counter pulls back the curtain on the stage set.
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A Meditation on the Crowdsourcing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Given our awesome connectivity and the enhanced visibility of just about every square inch, the online public search effort is a visual and technological angel mission. And yet...
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The Photo that Sums up the Fukushima Anniversary
It's hard to tell what was most surreal as the Fukushima story surfaced for a day.
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7 Reasons Why Donald Weber's Kiev Molotov Cocktail Portraits are That Effective
At once dirty and pretty, an achievement here (in comparison to so much other war photography) is that these don't glamorize.
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Methinks the White House Doth (Visually) Protest Too Much
I find it interesting how politicized and message-focused the job of White House photographer seems to have become.
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Photographer Mark Peterson Does CPAC
Here are three portraits with our own captions capturing some of the key moments of this momentous political event.
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On the Barbie/SI Swimsuit Cover: The Advertorial Girl
So let me ask you: is it a promo for an American sport magazine's yearly franchise editorial feature or is it an advertisement for an iconic American children’s doll?
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On the Russian Military Using Unmarked Uniforms
If soldiers are not wearing insignia, they are partially out of uniform; if they are partially out of uniform, they are that much closer to being private militias, gangs, or thugs.
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On that 26-Year-Old "Putin" - Reagan Photo in Moscow
All told, the photo is compelling for reasons that have little to do with its underlying accuracy.
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Sochi 2014/Crimea: We Are All Neville Chamberlain?
Watching the tanks roll and the blood spill this week, what it points to is a great yet silent miasma as if the Olympics took place in a bubble.
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Cold War Kiss: On Russia, the U.S. and the “Return to Normalcy"
It could be humans caught up in the worldly tensions between Eros and Thanatos. Or, it could be a “Return to Normalcy” where the war was “cold” and we could identify who our enemies were.
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War III or the Oscars?
Who knows what pace and flow means anymore living in this buzzing world.
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For a PC Oscars, Ellen's Actually Not-So-Cheesy Intervention
If the Oscars were set to celebrate racial equality and gay rights last night (both themes reflected in the leading films this year), I don’t think the assembly expected to take on class, too.
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Murder as Damn(ed) Good Art: Robert Hariman on Organized Crime World Press Winner
The mob knew it wasn’t enough to kill its enemies; the killings had to be displayed to the viewing public. But the photographer isn’t a lackey of the mob.
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