Nostalgic for Anthrax
At least, I'm sure the Secret Service has all the entrances secured.
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Mashup of the Day: Hands Up, Don’t Shoot
Maybe it’s relevant for drawing together the two biggest visual stories in the news stream right now — both involving blacks at risk.
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Hindsight and News Photography: On a Bio-Hazardous Dallas Balcony
Unfortunately, one thing news photography is good at is second-guessing, especially when it comes to homeland security.
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Does Up-and-Coming Model With Unusual Skin Condition Take Us Beyond Diversity?
How much is Ms. Brown-Young's condition, as a beauty signature, more singularly about "the other?"
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Photoville: War is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things
Wars may be easy to get into (and easy to suppose as tactically and emotionally limited) but then the stains just keep spreading.
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The Kent State Massacre Sweatshirt: How Far Did Urban Outfitters Really Go?
We can all wag our fingers at Urban Outfitters while others feed the diet in slightly more ambiguous ways. We can all wag our fingers, but the sphere wouldn’t be the sphere without its pirates and villains.
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More Fashion Week: I'm My Own Grandpa
Beneath the quips, there's something really clever going on here.
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America from the Outside: Nixon's Prop Wash by Jean-Pierre Laffont … and Annie Leibovitz
What caught my eye was this version of Nixon's final departure from the White House. Of course, it couldn't be more different then that iconic scene hardwired into the America consciousness.
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On that Photo of the Police Dog Funeral
The image made me pause for a moment and consider how quick we are to draw comparisons, to generalize and to judge.
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When Critical Issues Make For "Bottom-Tier" Visual Stories: Take Education
Save historical exceptions on the scale of Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957, it is difficult to imagine developments in education policy as visually spectacular events.
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David Schalliol from Chicago: On the South Side, as in Detroit, Rumblings of Something Different
I continue to seek the right balance between the challenges that plague the community and the life that goes on in response to – or in spite of – them. After all, it is difficult to make sense of what we observe without falling back on our preconceived...
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Corporate Gay Pride. (Let's Just Say, Not What I Expected in SF Yesterday.)
What I imagined, on my way into San Francisco yesterday (that famous, or infamous hotbed of liberalism) to attend Gay Pride, was an overwhelmingly progressive, indy and gonzo event.
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What's Stressing Super Dad (According to the WSJ)
It's not just that dads need and deserve the same recognition and consideration as moms for parallel engagement. It's the fact that families cannot cut it anymore on one salary (and haven't been able to for some time).
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Juxtaposition of the Day: American Gothic
The Las Vegas cop killers from a more cultural perspective.
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Concern and Eroticism: Wire Services Warm Up for Brazil and World Cup
Here comes the World Cup -- and the effort by Western visual media to create a simultaneously vital and salable picture of the Brazilian social and political landscape.
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Missing the Big Picture: How Cecily McMillan, Convicted of Assault, Was Violently Assaulted by NYPD at M17 Occupy Protest
What is curious about Cecily McMillan's ordeal is that, in spite of the mountain of critical fragments that were captured and published, the visuals have failed to focus the public mind around a smoking gun.
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About Those Callous Selfies
I'm not prepared to say that this photo or its innumerable cousins have any moral implications at all.
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