Culture Focus Archives - Page 26 of 30

Notes Photo November 15, 2008

Colbert: Not In Bushworld Anymore

Rahm Emanuel via bootleg video at HuffPost.... 20th Annual Roast for Spina Bifida, Hilton Washington.

Notes Photo November 9, 2008

Flickr Friends: You, Me And The Obamas

I've been looking at the Barack Obama election night Flickr set that many of you have written me about.

Notes Photo November 5, 2008

Our Man In Grant Park: At The Turn

In advance of an Alan Chin slide show of last night's historic Obama victory, we start you off with this. The shot was taken at the Hilton at the party hosted by Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr.

Notes Photo September 21, 2008

Beyond The Bailout: Sidewalk To Nowhere

Part of the agenda of "the man," I must point out, is to anesthetize us with photos we've seen a thousand times already, of one more generic-looking house with a for-sale or repo sign out front, or still another dumb gas pump. Over the coming days, weeks and, unfortunately...

Notes Photo September 17, 2008

Your Turn: Pink, Red, Blue, Red, Mustard, More Red, Click

For example, there's this morning's rather schematic AP story about Hillary avoiding Palin, Hillary's And then, playing off the image a little more literally, there's a Wall Street Journal slide show titled: Buying Palin's Shoes, about how "her personal style has sparked a buying frenzy."... Class has definitely been...

Notes Photo June 25, 2008

Your Turn: Juneteenth

Earlier this week, a reader directed me to a Juneteenth celebration slideshow on the Austin Herald-American website. She had been particularly transfixed by this image which the editors ran on the front page three columns wide below the fold.

Notes Photo May 2, 2008

(VF + Miley) x Annie = Kaching Kaching

Why I find this shot interesting is not because it echoes the specific image that tainted Hannah Montana, or even because of the social manipulation and political misdirection referred to above. It's because it captures Annie Leibovitz in the act of serving up one more cultural molotov cocktail.

Notes Photo March 27, 2008

Your Turn: Vogue + LaBron (Kong?) + Gisele = Kaching

Some say the photo of LeBron James -- in a gorilla-like pose -- perpetuates racial stereotypes.

Notes Photo March 11, 2008

"Newsweek Doesn't Hate Clinton" – Part 2: Pissed Off At The Press

In the context of the sympathetic Newsweek issue, and Brown's particular piece, it seems clear that the image -- comparing Hillary's relations with the press with a male's basic process of relieving himself -- is a rather unvarnished indictment of what is being characterized as a woman-hating press.

Notes Photo March 9, 2008

"Newsweek Doesn't Hate Clinton" – Part 1: Girls Cheating On Hillary

I'm not sure why Jessica Bennett's article in the latest Newsweek is titled "Am I Betraying the ‘Sisterhood’?" In light of the rhetorical question, the last line of the piece speaks of her "womanly satisfaction" with each Hillary victory.

Notes Photo January 29, 2008

Outside Heath Ledger's Apartment

These are pictures I snapped outside Heath Ledger's apartment on the night of his death. By the time I got there, the media hubbub had died down a bit, but I think these still represent the bizarre scene that ensued.

Notes Photo January 10, 2008

Iron My Shirt

It wasn't until Josh Marshall called out this incident, paired with Hillary's emotional moment, as the week's two defining moments, that I looked a little harder at the news photo of the "Iron My Shirt" incident.

Notes Photo January 1, 2008

American New Year

The power comes from the fact it so obviously references the famous "Times Square Kiss."... Because Alfred Eisenstaedt's iconic photo captured America's WWII victory over Japan, this pic seems a (perhaps, way too) gentle reminder not to forget about the Iraq. In its muted quality -- running hard against...

Notes Photo December 22, 2007

Aja, Aja, Aja, Aja, OBollywood

What you have to like about the OBollywood video is the possibility that America -- after years of xenophobia -- might possibly find a way to embrace diversity, pluralism and multiculturalism.

Notes Photo June 23, 2007

Belvedere

A brand-new shiny car, buried half a century ago in a time capsule, was recently revealed in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Oklahoma's statehood. People had hoped to find a pristine, gold '57 Plymouth Belvedere. Instead, they discovered a rust-covered relic.

Notes Photo June 13, 2007

It’s Not A Hand Gun, It’s Military: Fleet Week #3

What I'm curious about, however, is how -- just weeks after the Virginia Tech shootings (and the lost opportunity to have a public debate about hand guns) -- neither the military, the police, nor the city seemed to have reservations in encouraging the public (no just looking?), and especially,...

Notes Photo June 12, 2007

Black Boys With Guns: Fleet Week #2

Yesterday, I posted the first of a three-part series from Fleet Week. Photographer Nina Berman's images record the week-long festivities in New York involving the presence of naval ships, sailors, and military demonstrations and exhibitions all over the city. In this middle set of pictures, I'm interested in questions,...

Notes Photo June 11, 2007

Asking Questions About America: Fleet Week #1

About two weeks ago, photographer Nina Berman sent me a series of photos she had shot during Fleet Week, and I've been looking at them every day since.