9/11 In Passing
This photo of Beverly Eckert -- the 9/11 widow -- has stayed with me since she died in the Buffalo plane crash three days ago.
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World Press Photo Awards/Your Turn: Now War Is Coming Into People’s Houses Because They Can’t Pay Their Mortgages
The winner of World Press Photo, the most visible and prestigious photojournalism award was announced today. The picture, by Anthony Suau, shows an armed officer of the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Department moving through a home in Cleveland, Ohio, following eviction as a result of mortgage foreclosure.
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Do 1 Thing Saturday
On the 14th, and going forward, over a hundred leading photojournalists, many Pulitzer Prize winners, will do their "one thing" in the form of documenting teen homelessness.
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On the 14th, and going forward, over a hundred leading photojournalists, many Pulitzer Prize winners, will do their "one thing" in the form of documenting teen homelessness.
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Social Positions
It will be interesting to see how the Obamas use the social rooms in the White House, and how -- especially compared to George and Laura Bush -- they set the tone and dynamic with their guests.
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Jarrett, Obama, And A More World White House
As the Obama's arrive in Washington in anticipation of the inauguration, a new chapter begins at The BAG, involving an eye on the visual odyssey of the extended administration. I was particularly interested in this photo shoot featuring Valerie Jarrett, perhaps Barack and Michelle's closest advisor, which appeared in...
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Which One’s Gay?
The larger point in studying these portraits is that identity, sexual or otherwise, doesn't necessarily have all that much too do with surface. And then, it also raises interesting questions about gays, Mormons and BYU.
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Gitmo Christmas
This group has performed the same exercise three years in a row, emulating hooded Guantanamo prisoners engage in the act of shopping. The agenda is to remind Christmas shoppers, as they indulge in consumerism based on a supposedly sacred holiday, that war crimes at Gitmo are being committed in...
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Power Backlash
The media is starting to turn on the upper class. But is it just the fashionable thing to do?
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Looking At The "Post-Partisan" Religious Political Picture
Doesn't the current political climate, as expressed by the Obama victory and the dispersal of the "values vote," makes this picture much harder to read?
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Your Turn: Black Friday
Shoppers burst through the doors at the Wal-Mart in Fair Lakes Center when the store opened at 5 a.m. Friday morning
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Generically titled "Family Gathering," this New Yorker cover is a lot edgier than labeled.
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It’s Nice To See A Brown Girl Get Some Attention
In a cover story that speaks very meaningfully about black women and the dynamics of skin color, I thought it was quite contradictory that Newsweek's cover of Michelle Obama was black-and-white ... and Michelle is so (bathed in) light.
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Your Turn: Ad Free
Because one of my longtime political passions has been fighting the corporate and commercial appropriation of public space, I am interested in how you respond to these photos of Grand Central both before and now ad-free.
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Changing Landscape
With the Obama team in only a beginning shape, and barely flexing in the face of drastic problems, the tone has already shifted.
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