"What's Up" at The Dallas Museum of Art: Sculpture Imitates Life?
With everything in our increasingly technological, innovative and cataclysmic world as fodder for the camera, tell me it's not getting harder to make sense of what's sticking out anymore.
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Belgian Distress Over World Press Winning Pictures: Considering News Photos in a Larger Atmosphere
The fact that city representatives or the public-at-large would take issue with such depictions has been primarily characterized by the publishing world and the photo establishment as misplaced, as a misunderstanding of press photography rather than some misunderstanding or insensitivity on the part of the industry toward the public.
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Poor Kanye: Cell Phones, Martyrdom and Celebrity Culture
I am partly posting Kanye’s shaming of the celebrity-crazed public and his indictment of mobile photography as an example of how much pictures can take on a life of their own.
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On Texas Muslim Capitol Day: Photos by Nina Berman from Austin
The hostility of anti-Muslim protesters on the seventh annual Texas Muslim Capitol Day pales in comparison to the recognition and appreciation of the different cultural and religious communities among us.
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Award Season and Western Cultural Exports
If the 2015 Oscars expose a diversity problem with western cultural exporting, then the selection by POY doubles down on the indictment.
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Seeing Surveillance Everywhere and Nowhere
In this day and age, when an image could as easily have been pulled off a civil defense drone or a surveillance camera, we also register that.
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World Press Photo: As Much About News as About the Human Condition?
The picture of “Jon and Alex” seems to also be part of an emerging trend among the winning photographs of recent years: a cinematic aesthetics that combines artistic compositions with invitation to storytelling.
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The Optic of Family Values Just Doesn't Mix Well With the Optic of Gun Rights
An AP photographer doesn't do any favors for the shrewdness of Olympia's arms enthusiasts.
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Denial Is a Pool in Bakersfield: An Immigration Picture You've Hardly Seen Before
What Mark’s photo frames and what it also nails are two of the immigration issue's elephants in the room.
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For Crying Out Loud: The Visual Politics of the Vaccination Photo
Now that vaccination has become the latest political football in America’s ideological and culture war, the injection photo really does carry some weight.
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The Excess of Super Bowl Weekend Summed Up in One Picture — from Friday's Wing Bowl
If you want an image that encapsulates a cultural milieu that enables the commercial success of Sunday's big game, skip the sports page and take a look at these photos from the Super Bowl's lesser-known, but just-as-indulgent cousin.
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Six Photos to Consider on the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz
This is not a post about remembrance as much as it is about the applicability, universality and the visual influence of the occasion.
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The Dream of Reconciliation: Martin and Trayvon, Eric, Wenjian and Rafael
If power is unequal, hearts are hard and communication in the public square is all too partitioned and barbed, I deeply appreciate both these images.
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Pictures That Lead: Race and Law Enforcement a Lot More Complex Than NYPD vs. de Blasio
Media doesn't do the public or the culture any favors in focusing so overwhelmingly on street battles and gotcha imagery.
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It's One of the Best Pictures of the Year Because…
If media skews to the dark side, the gift of the photo is the reminder that life is how you look at it.
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Punching Out a Monet
With such disparity in our otherwise elegant world, the puncture seems fitting of the times.
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Wedding Photojournalism: Some of My Best Friends are Masai
If the bride knows the Masai and they are friends, is she still "using" the Masai as accessories? Umm, yes.
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The Day in Space
Was there more than just a visual resemblance between the photo of the window washers rescued from the WTC yesterday and the remarkable photos of the European Space Agency’s Philae probe after successfully landing on Comet 67P over 300 million miles away?
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