The Horror
Does this Reuters shot (from Jeb's campaign kickoff) look like a Hitchcock still?
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Why it's Fair Game for Getty to Tweak Christie as Gay (and for AP to Depict Ted Cruz with a Gun to his Head)
It's important to emphasize that the creation of news photos and editorial decisions about what to put on the wire do not take place a vacuum.
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On Pointing a Handgun Directly at Ted Cruz's Head
These photographs make a point by turning the gun lobby's central argument back onto itself. If "more guns" is your only response to rampant gun violence, then at some point a law of averages dictates that innocent people are going to end up in the line of fire.
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Yes He's All In, But Is Jeb Somewhere Else?
Watching Bush's campaign announcement was interesting ... and strangely odd.
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It Went Viral, But Why?: Hillary's 1st Instagram
If you said, because it's patriotic, that's too easy.
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Scott Walker and the GOP's Biker Pose
The Mad Max aesthetic lets the GOP project tribal and libertarian instincts at the same time.
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Clinton / Sanders #2: The Look of Authenticity
Hillary's Iowa campaign photos so far have demonstrated the ultimate concern, engagement and compassion. And that’s the problem.
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Clinton / Sanders Pix of the Week
Trolling the visual flotsam and jetsam better known as the nascent Democratic 2016 presidential campaign, two different photos floated to the surface.
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Santorum's Sweater and the Endless Campaign
Talking irony, it's notable to lose Tunbjörk just at the start of this next presidential marathon. Who knows how the photographer would have approached the selling of the candidates this cycle.
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Kickoff Week: Profiling Hillary (and the Parodists)
The amount of posturing, aggressiveness and and even presumption in the Clinton's political DNA notwithstanding, I found the Hillary '16 kickoff parodies way off-key.
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On the Hillary Announcement and Logo
With the abundant comparisons to FedEx, what's telling right off the bat is that categorically, it's more corporate than populist or even political -- by miles.
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High Hopes for '16 Optics … as we Launch by Cruz
Knowing that photographers and the public are expecting more creativity, more storytelling and more editorializing out of their news photography these days, I'm hopeful Campaign '16 will allow for visual reveals.
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Horns Are The Least Of It: Quick Takes On The New TIME Hillary Cover
Of course, if you want to avoid the silhouette altogether....
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For Crying Out Loud: The Visual Politics of the Vaccination Photo
Now that vaccination has become the latest political football in America’s ideological and culture war, the injection photo really does carry some weight.
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Dr. Christie, He Presumes: GOP Optics and Weird Science
If you don't have the politics or the facts firmly enough behind you -- especially if the public doesn't take you that seriously -- doing a photo op against the no-nonsense background of the clinic or the lab is not a very good idea.
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Two Views of the GOP's Iowa Freedom Summit
If Peterson's shots are more consistently dark and cynical in tone, it's not to say that the Yahoo Gallery doesn't match, and in certain instances, exceed Mark's most equivalent photo for skepticism and even mockery.
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With All the Romney Buzz, We Return (Via the Lens of the Brilliant Stephen Crowley) to Where We Left Off
If we really are going to have Mitt to kick around a third time, it's worth the eloquent, if slightly wicked reminder of what we'd be re-subjected to.
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