Black Car Limos
Not since those days after Katrina struck have I felt this much anger, frustration and embarrassment over the lack of principled political leadership and fundamental social justice in this country.
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A Little Fire On Capitol Hill
I have to tell you, today has been one of the most chock-full visual news days I've seen in a long time. Palin at the U.N. Bush at the U.N. (showing his face in public, whereas he's mostly been hiding out from the Wall Street crisis and his record...
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Dodd Going By The Book
On Monday, Chris Dodd -- Chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Chairman -- seemed to emerge as a point man in the financial crisis. This shot was taken in Dodd's office over the weekend. The most symbolic element in the shot is Bob Woodward's new...
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September 11, 2008: What Is Still "Ground Zero"
This is the second year BAGnewsNotes has featured Alan Chin's images of the 9/11 anniversary from the World Trade Center site.
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NOLA: The Critical Factor
No matter how many Gulf Coast photos I look at tonight, I keep coming back to this one -- the levees fixed at the center of the human and political Gustav story.
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The Politics Of Gustav
With Gustav bearing down, Bush poses in front of a gigantic FEMA logo, "response" forefront in Bush's head.
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(Way) After The Flood
Short of re-donning a flight suit and posing looking back at the USS Abraham Lincoln, I couldn't imagine another shot more evocative of Bush 43's other monumental failure.
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For the past two months, BNN contributer Alan Chin has been in China. He just forwarded this link to a tragic series of images he shot for Newsweek in Beichuan and Dujiangyan.
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Your Turn: Welcome To New Orleans
People in New Orleans are not just angry but also horribly embarrassed by this shot illustrating a recent city purchase of SWAT and riot equipment. They are pissed off at Mayor Nagin (right), the police chief, Warren Riley (left), and the Times Picayune for running it.... The armored vehicle...
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No Forrestalling The Inevitable?
Somehow, pouring over the Super Tuesday eve pics, the best material kept coming up McCain.
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Work With Me, Baby
Anxiety over nuclear bombs is perhaps more pronounced today than anytime since the Cold War, marked by a persistent worry about unfriendly nations, renegade scientists, and terrorists of all stripes gaining access to enriched uranium and nuclear warheads. And yet, outside of a few editorial cartoons here and there,...
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September 11, 2007
Photographer Alan Chin, who captured the WTC attack six years ago, returned again yesterday to observe the mood around the Ground Zero site.
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Katrina At Two
Regarding the catch of the copter, it's a clever way of cutting a PR mission off at the trail, this "pre-photo op" photo embodying the true orientation of Bush and the government to the reality on the ground, which stands out, to this day, as distant and peripheral.... In...
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Katrina And The National Media: Absence Of A Soul
As we head into this week's Katrina commeration-a-thon, I'm thinking about how the national press has had such a hard time dealing with Hurricane Katrina's ongoing humanitarian disaster.
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Renaissance From The Inside
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/us/20070712_EXILES_FEATURE/index.html I am particularly struggling with this issue thinking about this issue new role as a visual analyst for American Photo. --�Where is�21_0707NO0631.jpg located?� I guess there is a day care facility at the park?� What distinguishes this shot in your mind?... this photo shows the baby room of...
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Renaissance Clash
--- from the internet: Pardon Denied Again Robert Pete Williams was serving a lifetime sentence in Angola prison, Louisiana, where he and a number of fellow prisoners-bluesmen were recorded on a number of sessions in the late Fifties and early Sixties; this song is from 1960.... Robert Pete sings...
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Renaissance Village From The Outside
(Link: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/us/20070712_EXILES_FEATURE/ index.html ) i know both shaila dewan and lee celano who did that story, and i think they did a pretty good job. the bottom line for anyone who visits Renaissance Village is that, unless you've really got your own agenda, you will leave with this same...
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More Karl Post Mortem: Beyond My Pet Goat
Although I had seen this photo before, the fact it is appears in the NYT "Goodbye Karl" slideshow caused me to take a closer "visual forensic" look. The photo, as you can tell from the clock and the TV screen, was taken at 9:25 am on the morning of...
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