I want to believe that what I’m experiencing here is demonstrably more than just do-good shock-and-awe.
Continue ReadingHere we see GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump addressing reporters in an Alice in Wonderland world where loud bursts of patterns and color turn faces and neckties into dogs, ears into eyeballs, and hair into turkey vultures and armadillos.
Continue ReadingIn spite of how touching the story might be, the photograph also achieves something all together more troubling.
Continue ReadingWhen it comes to organizing daily patterns of mobility and interaction, our machines steer us around just as much as we do.
Continue ReadingIn these Chinese industrial towns, perhaps a little shut eye, a little shade and a little cardboard adds up to something completely practical.
Continue ReadingIf we can't even trust our own pilots, is there anyone or anything left that we can depend on to assure our safe travels?
Continue ReadingNow that vaccination has become the latest political football in America’s ideological and culture war, the injection photo really does carry some weight.
Continue ReadingI'm wonder how much of the softer, lighter, funnier and friendlier focus of many of these ads was actually a reflex to buffer the consuming public from the social tension and political anxiety that has formed an almost steady drumbeat since last November.
Continue ReadingIf you want an image that encapsulates a cultural milieu that enables the commercial success of Sunday's big game, skip the sports page and take a look at these photos from the Super Bowl's lesser-known, but just-as-indulgent cousin.
Continue ReadingYes, phallic associations abound in this story — and given the NFL’s travails, are fully deserving.
Continue ReadingInstead of seeing only competition, friction, and another day’s work, we can see the deep sense of decoration: how the small ornament can mirror a cosmos.
Continue ReadingAn impressionistic picture from the trading floor invites feedback.
Continue ReadingSomewhere, Borat is laughing his ass off.
Continue ReadingOf the 25 people named in the photo, only five are women and only one is a prime mover in an industrial company.
Continue ReadingWith such disparity in our otherwise elegant world, the puncture seems fitting of the times.
Continue ReadingThere are many dramatic events and concerns that fill the visual news window every day. The despair of the low wage hourly worker isn’t the first one that comes to mind.
Continue Readingn this age of Citizens United, oligarchy, marauding socialist market economies and free markets aligned with the value of "all-for-one," when do you ever see a protest photo that captures and illustrates the enterprise system itself — as opposed to the crackdown in the streets in defense of that...
Continue ReadingThe NFL's missteps must become opportunities to address the symbols of violence that the league promotes. Can Abdullah help us do that?
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