Bad Westerns: That Shot of the Bundy Posse Observing the Anthem
What may be a moment of reverent patriotism is also an image of the last cowboys mourning their own demise.
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On NYT Mag's Obama/Gay Marriage Cover and that "Projectile Bouquet"
The way that Obama agonizes over his trajectory, perhaps the mixed metaphor is a direct hit.
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Drone Visuals, Selfies and Human Agency
The drone and the selfie inhabit different ends of an image spectrum. Both in terms of production and consumption, the selfie is all us and the drone is all them. We know us well. We don’t know them at all.
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Todd Heisler's Border Vision
What Heisler offers us is a larger eye – the reality that America and Mexico have a more unusual course and unavoidable interconnection.
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Refugee World
So, what’s new about refugee camps? Well, perhaps it’s notable that they are being built in Las Vegas.
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Clint Takes Empty Chair to Russia. (No More Fronting For Losers, I Guess)
With the waking of the Russian bear, and with the first stirrings of the US presidential season, too, Russian Esquire hits a home run in remixing its metaphors.
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For a PC Oscars, Ellen's Actually Not-So-Cheesy Intervention
If the Oscars were set to celebrate racial equality and gay rights last night (both themes reflected in the leading films this year), I don’t think the assembly expected to take on class, too.
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If We Had Only Seen Hoffman in Pain
One of the profound things about photographs is how they can live simultaneously in the present and the past. People do not though.
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Looking at Trevor Paglen's NSA Photos for the Greenwald/Intercept Launch
Given Paglen's gifts and his reputation, coupled with the excitement and sky high expectations of this new venture, people were likely expecting the sublime.
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Game Change: POYi Meets NFL Meets Queer Nation
Of course, the idea that the population of American sports fans wouldn't be proportionally populated with gays and lesbians makes no sense at all. Stereotypes and homophobia in professional sports being what it is, however, the subjects coming together in this photo feel surprising and new.
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Where Celebrity Used to Leave Off and Everything Else Would Begin
Somedays, I wonder if celebrity and fame has become the plasma driving public culture.
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Fashion Week in the Big House
Shouldn’t there be some recognition of the difference between one of the more dangerous environments on earth and one of the most privileged?
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Deep Dive for Photo Editors: Ariel Sharon and the Politics of the Slideshow Retrospective
With the passing of Ariel Sharon, we were interested in the political nuances, and biases, in the photo galleries summarizing his career.
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Let the (Media) Bogarting Begin
If pot culture has been having its own tea party for decades, what IS mind expanding is the sudden elimination of the taboo as maryjane transforms overnight into a mainstream discussion product.
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I'm Thankful … I Didn't have to Photo Edit That
Once upon a time, picture quality had everything to do with you fiddling skills with the rabbit ears.
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I'm Thankful — from Dealey Plaza
Over the next four days, I'm sure there'll be six or eight things I'm thankful for.
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One More Commentary on the Cell Phone
Of course, anything could be happening here. Still....
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We Are All Bystanders: 18 Visual Scholars Reflect on Previously Unseen JFK Assassination Photographs – #3
We at BagNews were interested in bringing a deeper visual analysis to the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. Accordingly, we invited a broad group of distinguished visual scholars to provide us with brief responses to unknown photographs from November 1963. This is the last of a three post...
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