On My Honor: Looking at Romney, Ryan and the Boy Scouts
With Romney toggling back-and-forth between more conservative and moderate views, weighing in on the crisis besetting the Boy Scout movement would represent a true act of moral leadership.
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The Priceless Privilege: Times Square Kiss and Sexual Assault
The real challenge here then is not so much to critique the blind sexism of an earlier moment in our history, however much it might be mischaracterized as a golden past, but to question why we continue to refuse to see what might now be before our eyes.
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Alan Chin in Lower Manhattan: You Said You'd Never Forget
Alan Chin's moving photo-essay on the 9/11 anniversary losing its significance with images side-by-side of the near-completed Freedom Tower and his father's photo of the original World Trade Center under construction.
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Instagram and Murder
There has been quite a bit of discussion about the Instagram photos of shooting victims at the Empire State Building yesterday, with as much debate on the actual photo threads as off. Much of the discussion involves propriety, with suggestions in media the images were too immediate, too numb,...
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Patient Jesse Jackson Jr.'s Important Photo from Inside the Mayo Clinic
Jackson's photo-op completely upends the ubiquitous practice of the public figure being secluded away at a facility like Mayo or Betty Ford.
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Shooting Aftermath: Visualizing the Sikhs in Oak Creek
My question is, how much does exoticism come into play picturing the Sikh community after the tragic shooting at the Temple in Oak Creek?
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Sally Ride "Versus" Billie Jean King
Upon her death and the one line “coming out” in her obituary, Andrew Sullivan takes issue with Sally Ride for not revealing her sexual orientation years ago, while she was alive. Beyond the necessary footnote that she didn’t hide her sexual preference or her 27 year relationship with Tam...
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Already Bats? Some Thoughts on the James Holmes Science Camp Video
Because the public in general isn't sure what to make of this kind of data released and pumped by the media, I wanted to note some of the significant and not-necessarily-significant elements I saw in the video.
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James Holmes: Let the Mythologizing Begin
In the mundanity of Holmes' "uniform" in the theater parking lot, however, scattered on the pavement in the stark light of day, these sad, meager and scattered scraps of visual evidence speak just as much to the miles-wide gap between Hollywood and the theater inside Holmes' mind
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Dark Knight Massacre
This poignant scene from the aftermath of the shooting in Colorado is about tragedy and grief ... but, also, about our culture.
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Homophobic Boy Scouts, Paterno on the Run, Dubya the Economist? Notorious Photo Edits of the Week
It seems photo editors were in a quite a mood this week.
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A Closer Look at ’99 Photo of Sandusky Touching a Player
There's more to appreciate here beyond just the irony we read in an instant. ... As there often is.
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San Quentin Group Therapy?? The Oxymoron of the Century
One of the saddest, damning and most ironic photos I've ever seen -- and then some.
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Astronaut in the Grass
Is the scene that surreal or does it have something to do with the fact I just saw the new Wes Anderson movie?
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Anderson Cooper: "The Fact Is, I'm Gay." (Now, Fire Tank!)
Given Cooper's news, why is it that The Dish chose to illustrate it with the most heroic, the most stereotypically manly and (given the erect cannon, and the placement and location of the video camera) the most phallic power-pics they could find.
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A Few Words About Joe Klamar's Viral (and "Obviously Terrible") Olympic Portraits
Whether the picture subverts the background, the composition, the lighting or the athlete's expression, what at least a handful of Klamar's photos "accomplish" is to slight the plasticized image of the Olympic athlete perpetuated throughout the quadrennial media and advertising orgy.
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Eyes on the Google Glasses
Of course, today we hardly notice, but in the early days of cell phones, people on the street looked like they were psychotic.
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