The Eventful Photo Leading NYT Election Hacking Story
The photo of this Watergate-era artifact goes a long way in tackling how Russian hackers pulled this off.
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Aleppo as the 21st Century Hiroshima?
Considering how much conventional warfare is excused because it is assumed to be less destructive than nuclear weapons.
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Haiti, Matthew and the Limits of Attention
What makes one critical event the intense focus of “name photojournalists” and visual media while others are largely ignored?
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Pokemon Syria
Embellishing hell on earth with the blue character reminds us that war is not just slideshow fodder or background noise.
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On that 10 Downing Cameron Brexit Portrait
The photo is not just about England's divorce from the continent but how it informs the distance between Cameron and his wife.
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Echo of the Bomb in Photos of Obama’s Visit to Hiroshima
Beyond the photos of Obama at the memorial, it felt like the horror, grief, memory and subordination was creeping into the other images.
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Obama’s Trip to Vietnam: the Graphic
Credit Jim Watson for reducing the Vietnam trip to this one piece of iconography.
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Bhopal Portrait: Not Pathetic, Not Stereotyped
If the portrait prominently references a tragedy and a care agency, it hardly pulls for pity.
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Fort McMurray: Hard Pictures from the Alberta Wildfire
Whether the aftermath photo captured some essence of catastrophe and childhood, domesticity, suburbia or fate, each of them touched a chord.
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How A Confederate Flag Can Be Meaningless
How is it that the Confederate flag symbol could leave people ... feeling nothing?
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Leibovitz and the Queen on her 90th: Monarchy & Marketing
The stunning photos of Queen Elizabeth you're seeing this week are hardly agenda-free.
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No One Thinking About Nuclear Summit? Listen to the Ruins.
The nuclear summit was important–unless, that is, you don’t mind having Your Town looking like this.
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Wire Services, Instagram and Migrant Despair: Woohoo!
Publishing more colorful, interesting and entertaining photos to Instagram, are media organizations doing justice to hard news?
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Brussels, Tintin and White House Wild Things: Juxtaposition of the Day
Two popular children's books, right? But here's where the twist comes....
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Sacrilege
These photos, in the aftermath of the attacks in Brussels and Lahore, share a profane symmetry.
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Media, Pix and the Cuba Visit: Beyond Obama and Ché
Obama's alignment with a Ché Guevara mural is a cheap thing to focus on when the real challenge of the Cuba trip is the human condition.
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Progress and Catastrophe at the World Press Photo Awards
The winners bring us closer not only to the world as it is, but also to the world as it is unfolding from past to present to future.
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On Warren Richardson’s 2016 World Press Photo of the Year
The achievement of Richardson's World Press winning picture is the equally high level of artistry and story. Simply, it represents what we're seeing more consistently these days: a higher caliber press photograph.
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