Relative Vantages (and Advantages): Souza and the Photo Media Go to the Bookstore
In light of ongoing tension between the White House and the press over visual access to the President, I was interested in Saturday's post-Thanksgiving photo op from the D.C. bookstore, Politics and Prose.
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Pic of the Day: White House's Crass (Visual) Response to Media's Photo Access Protest
If the White House intended even a half-respectful gesture, they would have provided access to the president yesterday in a spot that was personal, doing something personal.
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Those Sensual Typhoon Pictures from the Philippines
I understand high contrast color is the new normal, but applied to disaster photography and extreme distress amidst exotic scenery, why does it feel like the stimulation is subsuming the information?
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LAX Shooting: James Franco Is Safe
I'm looking forward to more updates on Saturday, with pictures, from @jamesfrancotv.
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Putting Those al-Shabab Terrorists to Shame
Now that the shooting phase is over, we enter the spin room.
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Things to be Concerned About in the Mall Attack Photos from Nairobi (GRAPHIC)
Another way to understand the danger here has to do with infusing horrific news images with irony.
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Times Square Tweet Carnage: Where We (and Twitter) Are Now
Today, Twitter is much more of a gawking and tabloid territory, the happenstance procurement of a slice of trauma or celebrity functions as much or more like a trophy, the posting and engagement less an act of witnessing than voyeurism.
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Why All the Syrian Execution Imagery in the Major Media Lately? (GRAPHIC)
I would say that these images represent the inclination, on the part of the West, to paint every faction in Syria with a broad bloody brush.
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Will this (Random, Dated) Snuff Video Prevent the Attack on Syria?
With respect to everything at stake here, the bar for decisive imagery remains much higher.
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Impressive Level of Artificial Sweetener: Obama-Putin St. Petersburg Body Language
It's such a supreme example of pretending, it's the mutual recognition of the exercise that ultimately makes the contact authentic, even intimate.
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Anti-War Protests and the Media Stage. (Or: Assad Gets Around)
These discs might be accessible at the click of a button, but the uniformity and the geography makes me appreciate how much al-Assad gets around.
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Ready to Punish Assad, Cameron as Action Figure
If we're in another one of those countdowns where the time for temperance is somehow running out, this photo perfectly sets up the lizard brain.
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The Civil Rights Movement and the Stamp of '63
A major narrative surrounding the story involves the challenge, for the civil rights movement and the media, to make this week more than just a commemoration and an exercise in nostalgia. Considering this widely-circulated image of an event at the Newseum on Friday, that might be a tall order.
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White House & Puppies + Twitter & Instagram = Media Fetching & Rolling Over
A new dog offers a snapshot of the ability of the White House to generate social media buzz.
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SF Weekly's Ball Busting Oakland PD Cover
Of course, it's a sexual innuendo, but it's perfect the way it's that twisted.
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That "Grahams to Sell The Post" Front Page
It might be Bezos' deal, not Amazon's, but this still has Web 2.0 written all over it.
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Reza Aslan/ Lauren Green: FOX With the Sound Off
What's interesting in the face of the disrespect is how nimble Aslan remains. Rather than becoming overly defensive or offensive, terse or tight, what you see below is a surprising breadth.
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