Olympic 2012 Logo: What Is It
I wanted to weigh in on the controversy raging about the new London 2012 Olympic logo. I think a large part of the problem is that people are looking at it as a static element, whereas the intent of it is to actually float, fill and/or move.
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Your Turn: All In The Family
White House caption: Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne Cheney, welcomed their sixth grandchild, Samuel David Cheney, Wednesday, May 23, 2007. He weighed 8 lbs., 6 oz and was born at 9:46 a.m. at Sibley Hospital in Washington, D.C. His parents are the Cheneys’ daughter Mary, and...
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Covering Nimoy's Latest Subject
I can't speak for his latest photographic interest, mainly because the Times article doesn't provide any link to them (although it clues you where to start searching for them). What I can say is, even though the article outlines how he came to become fascinated with female obesity, because...
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Your Turn: What About Anya?
So, what's going on? What would possibly cause a crack down backlash examination into the drugging of America?
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If It’s (Electoral) Curtains For Pro-Life, You Could Have Showed Me!
Truly an interesting pic to accompany one of the momentous political developments in years. I'm convinced that the consequence of George Bush's stubborn adherence to a failed Iraq policy is the devastation to the formerly morality-owningChristian super-far right constiuency....
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The Queen Honors Our History … And Other Colorful Subjects
Studying the first wave of images from the British invasion, what jumps out is the Queen's effort to put a more "multicultural" spin on her visit (as is the theme in this Jamestown anniversary year). Specifically, I was interested in the visual interplay between newswire shots of the Queen...
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Your Turn: The Columbine Reflex
In the aftermath of the Virginia Tech massacre, this image -- from a promotional site for photographer Kyle Cassidy's upcoming book, ARMED AMERICA: Portraits of Gun Owners in their Homes -- started making the rounds. And -- shades of Cho Seung-Hui or Dylan Klebold -- it's not hard to...
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Completely Wrapped Up With The Gun
What is interesting to me about this cover is how it simultaneously hits America's problem with guns and its hysteria over the threat of violence. (On the newsstand over here, it's the latter meaning that jumps out at you, but can you feel it from home?)
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Photographer Alan Chin From Blacksburg
View Photojournalist Alan Chin's photographs and reflections from Blacksburg on the mayhem at Virginia Tech.
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Business, Glam And Virginia Tech
BAGnewsNotes looks at the Virginia Tech shooting through the "sites" of business culture in this original slide show
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The Blackish Man In America
he might as well be white" http://mediamatters.org/items/200702130003 You can't bring up anything other than that suddenly he's African-American. If you start to, you know, delve around the edges, say, "Wait a minute, isn't he mixed race?... Can I even say that without somebody else starting a campaign saying, 'What...
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Your Turn: Rites Of Passage
Nina Berman's photo of Iraq veteran Ty Ziegel and his wife, Renee Kline, won a first prize in the portraits category in the 2007 World Press photo awards announced Friday.
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Your Turn: Man At His Best
I'm interested in your reaction to the way Esquire editors place so much emphasis on the Iraq veteran's replacement arm. I guess, being a publication dedicated to machismo, the utility of that limb (or, reading the article, you might say, the "sport utility" of it) is critical.
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Losing Altman
The "it" is the powerful reaction I had when I heard Robert Altman had died, and I saw this image leading off his photo gallery in the NYT.
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Vewy Vewy Quiet
On a recent weekend in the Nevada desert, amateur rocket scientists, mostly male of course, gathered to show off, then shoot off, their latest work. Scenes like this are the modern version of a Norman Rockwell painting; it's the grand and intensely American vision of of space exploration scaled to...
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That's My Dad
Flat Daddies and Mommies, usually poster-sized headshots mounted on foam board and supplied by National Guard units, have been seen at soccer games, weddings, and even wrapped in blankets on the couch watching television.... During a war, photographs have always served as treasured reminders of those left on both...
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Minor Distinctions
I was curious about this piece on the fallen Representative Mark Foley in Sunday's NYT Week In Review. The media seems to be having an easy time publishing the sexually-oriented IM transcripts between Congressman Foley and a 16-year old male intern. At the same time, however, I wonder just how...
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With Deep Apologies To Susan Sontag
Many of you emailed me about Newsweek ditching the "Losing Afghanistan" cover on this week's American edition. Most also directed me to the incriminating screen shot from Newsweek's site juxtaposing the cover image for three continents with the one for the U.S. As to the Afghan downgrade specifically, I have...
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