People Who Live in Glass Boxes: The Arne Svenson Tribeca Telephoto Controversy
How is it Svenson didn't know that, in a city build on wealth and status, money -- floating glass boxes or not -- also buys you transparency?
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Modernism: Past the Dynasty and the Mad Men
Individuals still have their preferences, of course, but modernism is now a period style rather than a dynastic order.
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Alan Chin from Watertown, MA: Endgame at 67 Franklin Street
Inside the police perimeter on Franklin Street it was hushed and quiet, with only the sound of generators powering the metal halide arc lights and a flight of bats rustling tree branches on what would return soon to simply a chilly spring night.
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Bitter Anguish Over Gun Control Defeat: Key Pics of Sandy Hook Families in DC
The gravity of the vote, and the trauma and deep losses that elicited it, stripped away any artifice of the political photo op.
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Guy Kills Self at NRA-Sponsored NASCAR Race Days Before Senate Kills Gun Control. Nobody Notices.
First I'm going to show you a select edit from the NASCAR race at the Texas Motor Speedway in Ft. Worth this past Saturday. Then, I'm going to tell you what happened so you can look at the images again and see how horribly ironic they are.
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Jew in a Box
So when the base of the box in which the person sits says “Are there still Jews in Germany?', maybe an automatic response would be to addend a "why" to the start of the sentence.
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The School Turnaround Dance
The lead image in the slideshow captures the hostile danse ballet of what American schools have become.
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Thoughts on TIME's Gay Marriage (or, is it Gay Sex?) Cover
Don't the covers perpetuate gender stereotypes (or gay stereotypes) to the extent the women's kiss is more sensual as compared to the more aggressive/sexual male kiss?
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Family Snaps vs. There Must be Blood: More Gay Marriage Protest Optics
Love versus hate. Intimacy versus righteousness. That's how you can visually differentiate the two sides in the gay marriage protests outside the Supreme Court.
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The Day’s Most Popular Photo from the Supreme Court Gay Marriage Demonstrations
The sign frames gay marriage as a historical inevitability. Whether the Supremes duck the issue now, or not, that's the main story.
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Sandy Hook Ongoing: Kids in a Blanket
Why didn't I think of becoming the distributor for Colombian-made bullet proof blankets?
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Powerful Images from the Senate Armed Services "Military Sexual Assault" Hearing
What a landmark day, and a powerful group of photos from the Senate Armed Services Committee's Personnel Subcommittee hearing yesterday on Military Sexual Assault. We share our thoughts on a number of the images from the encounter.
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Getting Pinked: Arizona (Still) Using "Emasculation Jail" in Anti-Immigration Fight
Getty photographer John Moore is thoroughly right to call out the tactic of humiliation in the treatment of undocumented immigrant detainees in Phoenix. What's even more troubling, however, is that this is not a new story.
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The Japan Quake Anniversary and the "Ownership" of Commemoration
Looking at the photos from the second anniversary of the Japanese quake and tsunami yesterday, I couldn't help think about the visual politics of commemoration.
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The Role of the Camera and the Photos in Domestic Abuse: Maggie, Shane and Sara Lewkowicz
Since most people seem terribly uncomfortable about actually addressing the images, let's go there.
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B-Leaguered Kim Jong Un-Rodman Match Up: Where are the Out-of-Bounds Lines of Political Celebrity?
Though the trend is nothing new, I think it might be time to take pause and consider the pitfalls of politicians continue to ingratiate, humanize or just de-stigmatize themselves with the public by associating with pop culture icons.
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Newtown Families at Weapons Ban Hearing: Uncomplicated Emotions
What I'm curious about, however, is why we don't see more photos of anger.
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Michelle Obama: Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Well, talk about the Obama's going to the furthest lengths to leverage pop-culture.
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