On Those Re-released FBI 9/11 Photographs
It's a cold practice "dropping" this still-wrenching material this way. These images, like so many others rushed through the news stream, deserve more.
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Protest in Russia, Protest in America
The question is about how familiar Americans are with Russia. And it's about the burden placed on news photos.
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11 Takeaways on Donald Trump Jr. in Flannel
It's so much easier for the media to do its pandering, or throw a bone, in the style section.
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Through a Glass, Darkly: Visibility in Trump’s America
It seems to me that the news photo too often is showing us only the aftermath. Too much of the damage is being done off-stage.
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Donald Meets Mad Ave in the First Trump Super Bowl
More and more, corporations are coming to understand how much prosperity is tied to the health and humanism of our society.
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Viewing Trump’s Ugly Call With Australia’s Prime Minister
The photos give us a further sense of Trump, the bully. But they also indicate how much information is left to our imagination.
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Obama as Chicago Keepsake — A Unique Photo Farewell
Seeing how people in Chicago have saved and displayed Obama's image or memorabilia expresses his impact and farewell in a more personal way.
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Bernie Commandeers a Trump Tweet
What Bernie did is profound. He captured a Trump tweet, a telling one, the same way you would capture and display an infected mosquito in a jar.
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Why Photographs Don’t Stop the War
Photographs may have long wave influence, but they don’t end wars or famines or otherwise stop history in its tracks.
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The New Foreboding: Our Twitter and Instagram Favs of the Week
This round up of our best social media this week is colored by the ominous presidential transition and what it portends for the future.
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Meet the Racists!
If the racists are trying to mask their hatred, the NY Times story makes for the kind of advertising you just can't buy.
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What We Can Learn or Confirm from Trump’s Visit with Japan’s Prime Minister
We can start with the fact that the only pictures of the visit were made and released to the press by the Japanese.
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Media Normalizing: Reading the Ryan/Trump Speaker’s Balcony Photo Op
The impression is that Ryan and Trump, in completely normal fashion, are sharing the governing landscape. But that is not what is happening at all.
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So Much for Competence: Trump/Clinton as Popularity Contest
Whatever got us here, asking "Which One?" this year is radically misleading when only one of the candidates is competent.
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On the NY Magazine/Barbara Kruger Trump “Loser” Cover
When they go low, we go… lower?
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Campaign ’16 In Pictures: Watch the School of Visual Arts Lecture by RTP’s Michael Shaw
On September 22, 2016, The School of Visual Arts presented "The Backlash Election: Campaign '16 In Pictures," a lecture by Reading the Pictures publisher, Michael Shaw. Watch it here.
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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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News Photos of Police Protests: More Profiling of Black Males
What we're seeing in these photo galleries is a replay of the stereotype associating young black men with criminal and savages.
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