International Focus Archives - Page 13 of 40

Notes Photo March 5, 2014

On that 26-Year-Old "Putin" – Reagan Photo in Moscow

All told, the photo is compelling for reasons that have little to do with its underlying accuracy.

Notes Photo March 4, 2014

Sochi 2014/Crimea: We Are All Neville Chamberlain?

Watching the tanks roll and the blood spill this week, what it points to is a great yet silent miasma as if the Olympics took place in a bubble.

Notes Photo March 3, 2014

Cold War Kiss: On Russia, the U.S. and the “Return to Normalcy"

It could be humans caught up in the worldly tensions between Eros and Thanatos. Or, it could be a “Return to Normalcy” where the war was “cold” and we could identify who our enemies were.

Notes Photo February 28, 2014

Murder as Damn(ed) Good Art: Robert Hariman on Organized Crime World Press Winner

The mob knew it wasn’t enough to kill its enemies; the killings had to be displayed to the viewing public. But the photographer isn’t a lackey of the mob.

Notes Photo February 27, 2014

Towell from Kiev (and Canada): the Cream Rises to the Top – Updated

this photo is jarring for the woman in the fashionable jacket putting her hand to the shield -- as if pushing (or pushing back) with the strength of modernity.

Notes Photo February 25, 2014

Netanyahu Gives Merkel Hitler's Mustache. Or: How Photos So Easily and Often Remind Us of Other Things

Sometimes the connection between one visual and another is so blatant, it commandeers our mental hard drive. Of course, what raises the Netanyahu Merkel Hitler photo to "epic" is all the irony that gets baked in too.

Notes Photo February 21, 2014

The Petal

Isn't it interesting how much a subject's personality can influence the way we respond to a more impressionistic photo?

Notes Photo February 20, 2014

Pussy Riot vs. Cossacks at the Olympics: A War of Images (This Time)

Who knows what will happen when the Olympic spotlight is no longer trained on Putin.

Notes Photo February 19, 2014

The Pictures Standing Out: Kiev Afire

Between the newswire and the Twitterverse, yesterday's photos from Ukraine were both intense and inescapable. Here's a collection of the most prominent.

Notes Photo February 17, 2014

Sochi is Boring

Not that the Olympics aren't a hallowed institution, by the way, but so were college athletics before the Sports-Industrial Complex ate them.

Notes Photo February 11, 2014

Why I Disagree with Picture of the Year's First Place Choice of "Final Embrace"

The truth is, this photo doesn't valorize the workers who died in Rana Plaza as much as it sentimentalizes.

Notes Photo February 8, 2014

I Stayed Up All Night To Get Lucky

It's not often I'm rendered speechless.

Notes Photo February 6, 2014

Heaping Shit on the Russians: Danger of a Low Bar?

If we're plunging headfirst into a crass visual meme, I think it's instructive.

Notes Photo February 1, 2014

Communications from Above

What I'm not able to tell is if Nachtwey is being ironic or he's serious about placing this modern ritual on such a spiritual plane.

Notes Photo January 30, 2014

Putin & Sochi: Let the FU's Begin

We can break down the lines of attack into three categories: Olympic ring modification; the mocking of Putin's macho preoccupation with his own bod, the typology also setting homo-erotic bells ringing; and finally, Putin's outright gay-ification.