Obama Meets Facebook
I’m fascinated with Wednesday’s photos from Palo Alto and what’s going on with the two brands. On the one hand, it seems that Zuckerberg and Facebook subsume Obama, reducing the President to, yeah, just another face on FB. On the other hand, if Facebook is “all that” right now,...
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Donald Framed
By the way, I don't think the corner is unfinished ala Washington’s portrait. I think it's just the flash. The effect, though, doesn't go badly with that sky and the sense of heavenly power, potential storm and rays from a deity.
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Angelina on the Tunisia/Libya Border
I'm not saying Angelina doesn't have an impact, but this photo is just forced and exploitive.
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The Freedom Riders, the King Assassination and James Earl Ray’s Back
Shoved into a Shelby County Jail cell, Ray faces the reality upon him; the physical finality of confinement with nowhere to go
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A Brush With Saif Gaddafi
Before the Gaddafi's elevated to Public Enemy No. 1, Saif Gaddafi and his artwork attracted fawning attention. This piece is certainly my favorite.
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(M)arch Madness
Sports Illustrated's tournament cover photo "feats" how the NCAA, sports coaches and Madison Avenue are profiting to the stratosphere.
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The “Fukushima 50”
I find the photos interesting in their anonymity -- consistent, I assume, with the way Japanese orient to the group as much as Americans obsesses over the individual, and look high and low, even more intensely since 9/11, for "the hero."
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What Are Unions Good For?
As we debate the value of unions in the days ahead, we are well advised to recall the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and worker's needs to have for a collective voice in representing their interests, particularly in the face of efforts to castigate unions as little more than selfish,...
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Nina Berman in Florida: Abortion Patient As Perp
This is what women’s healthcare looks like today. In the face of pro-life protesters and a history of violence against abortion providers, women, whether seeking abortions, morning after pills, pap tests, or HIV screening, are forcibly thrust onto an open stage where an extremely private undertaking becomes a public passion play.
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Trolls Trending
For a respite from the swirling madness, and hoping the offbeat subject matter might also beckon some good, old fashioned Bag discussion, I'm interested in your take on the 2.0 redesign of these little creatures.
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Danny Ghitis in Poland: Ordinary Life in Auschwitz
In a departure from our usual focus on contemporary news imagery, BagNews is excited to launch this series from photographer Danny Ghitis, who has been traveling to Poland and exploring the subtle and nuanced nature of memory, history, and ordinary life in Auschwitz:
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Pro-Life Billboard: Saving (Those Baby-Dropping) Black Women From the Abortionist
The key here is to get beyond the the language of cautious concern. And, once you do, the otherwise arbitrary allusion to black women and pregnancy by the far right seems as much a racial ploy as anything else.
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David Cameron –- Escorting Arms Dealers to Huge Mid-East Defense Expo –- Drops By Tahrir Square
Only slightly obscured by the palm trees and the olive branches, here are a few choice photos laying out the blatant hypocricy of the West when it comes to the arming of Middle Eastern dictators and autocratic regimes -- on sale now!
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Your Turn: Self-Portraits for Social Networks
The way Facebook and social networking have literally rocked the world, I'm interested in your take on this World Press Winning story series in the portrait category by photographer Wolfram Hahn.
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Fashion Week and the Creative Destruction of Happiness
OK, I get it: Fashion Week in New York is expected to be exotic and excessive, an uber-chic party for only the few and the very few. Even so, I was a bit taken aback by this unexpected display of privilege.
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Tim Fadek: Is Social Media Destroying Public Interaction?
Maybe it's a stretch, but I see irony here -- guests seemed to spend more time with their phones than with each other. This begs the question: Outside of virtual, online sociality, does Social Media make us more or less social in person?
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Super Bowl: Enter the Matrix
So maybe this isn’t "The Matrix," but "2001," the screen a monolith jammed into human consciousness by aliens. Except these aliens aren’t trying to usher in a new human race, but rather, one attuned completely to the corporate enterprise of buying-and-selling.
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