On the Move: 18 Visual Scholars Reflect on Previously Unseen JFK Assassination Photographs – #2
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 second of a three post...
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Downward Like a Lightning Bolt: 18 Visual Scholars Reflect on Previously Unseen JFK Assassination Photographs – #1
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 a brief response to a photograph from November 1963. This is the first of a three...
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"Biracial Gag Response" In Pictures: A Little Jenga For the 13%
I'm pretty sure the glue that connected Cohen to Romney in my head was the Gallup 13% biracial disapproval stat being bandied around married to Mitt's self-inflicted brouhaha over America's deluded 47%.
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David Schalliol from Chicago: How Do You Photograph the Emergence of Nothing?
How strange it is to live in a new place without even moving.
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I'm Glad I Spent it With You: On the Passing of Lou Reed
Like always, Reed used these three categories typically ascribed to the artist -- personal destruction, recovery and transcendence -- as just more ironic material.
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Saudi Women: Driving Home the Point
How nice (and stereotype-defying) to see men also giving a nod.
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No Photos by Women Photojournalists In Syria & Brown Miss America Freak Out: 2 Reasons BuzzFeed Starting to Piss Me Off
Here was a perfect opportunity to show us a women or multiple women journalists, for goddsakes, actually covering the war in Syria -- though I understand it might have taken about a minute to find one.
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Security the Pressing Thing
Seems you can't look over your shoulder, in the rear-view mirror or in the reflection of a puddle without seeing some reminder, allusion, suggestion (thought broadcast?) about the surveillance and security state.
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Alan Chin in Lower Manhattan: 9/11 Turns Twelve
Good hack and lensman that I am, I fight for access to restricted areas, bemused that the young men and women in uniforms who see journalists as intrusive adversaries have no idea that, the dozen years back, I was here too.
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Next Time You Hit a Wall, Hit it Back
What's so notable about the image, obviously, is how much the poster both foreshadows and mirrors the mayhem in the streets.
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Hitler Non Grata
Is there any instance where a Hitler or a bin Laden would evoke more insight than stigmatization in such a format?
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The Razing in Cleveland of Ariel Castro's House
Can you imagine the pain and embarrassment of that monumental shame on Seymour Avenue becoming ceremonial for a day?
Continue ReadingBert and Ernie Gay (and Illustrators DOA) in Cutest Fail of Historic Week
It's a thoroughly creative combination like this which makes fireworks go off in the brain. In this case though, the winner is primarily the illustrator for hitting it out of the park for cleverness and cuteness, not the magazine for framing the movement or the Supreme's decision in any...
Continue ReadingThe SCOTUS Same-Sex Marriage Rulings: Closure
That's not just what the Court delivered, it's what the images speak to.
Continue ReadingPhotojournalism and Culture as Famously Banal: Remembering James Gandolfini
What I found hollow and gnawing (like a president had died, or at least a Michael Jackson) was the shock and sentiment on local radio and television over the passing of the actor who played Tony Soprano.
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David Schalliol from Chicago: How a 400 Family Neighborhood Became Urban Prairie
Of course, expanding a freight yard in the middle of the country’s third largest city isn’t simply a matter of construction.
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Prom Night, 1979
TIME unearths these photos of Obama with his (white) high school friends and prom date. But what relevance do they have?
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