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Notes Photo November 10, 2015

Telltale Screenshots from U. of Missouri

I offer these screen shots for the way they speak to the complicated mess surrounding visual access and photo coverage of news events today.

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Ben Carson on the Bubble: Scott Olson’s “Red Light” Photo from Iowa

If Carson continues to insist that he’s beyond reproach, you can already sense how many faces in the audience he’s going to alienate.

Notes Photo November 2, 2015

The Season’s Most Cynical Political Costume Photo

Of course, it's not outside the realm of possibility the family of this kid understood how xenophobic Trump is.

Notes Photo November 1, 2015

Skid Row Halloween

Where are the critical details as the kids are seen to be either parading, or trick-or-treating past rows of people living in tents or boxes?

Notes Photo October 29, 2015

Ashley Gilbertson’s “New Europeans”: A More Subtle Migrant Exodus

This photo of migrant children on the Macedonia/Greece border uniquely captures the more daily highs and lows of this historic period.

Notes Photo October 27, 2015

Savaging Jeb!

This Reuters slideshow struck me as really different.

Notes Photo October 23, 2015

Reading the Hillary Clinton House Benghazi Testimony Photos

While the media is swimming in a river of Hillary faces from the House Benghazi hearing, I had some thoughts on some slightly less trafficked photos.

Notes Photo October 21, 2015

The Visual Promise of Justin Trudeau

We already know Justin Trudeau can make a visual splash. The question is, can he make a difference?

Notes Photo October 18, 2015

Israel / Palestine: Visual Politics of the Knife

What does it mean to spotlight these huge hunting knives when younger Palestinians are just grabbing whatever is in the kitchen drawer?

Notes Photo October 15, 2015

Radical Feminists Disrupt Suffragette Premier; Stars Approve

Why would radical feminists disrupt the premiere of a film celebrating radical feminism? And more significantly, did the optics work?

Notes Photo October 8, 2015

On Norbert Baksa’s “Migrant Chic” Fashion Shoot

What Baksa has done may differ in degree, but not in kind with how his clients and the news media are pushing the edge.

Notes Photo October 5, 2015

Reading the New York Times Magazine Trump Balloon Cover

What the media still doesn’t get in singling out Donald Trump for ridicule.

Notes Photo October 2, 2015

The Trump “Obama Muslim” Moment the Media Totally Missed

In implicating Trump as a bigot and, by association, the audience as sheep, the photo media missed the most curious moment of this dispiriting campaign.

Notes Photo September 30, 2015

Hippie Bashing: New Photos at TIME Keep New Age on the Fringe

Perhaps a threat to consumer culture, these new photos at TIME ridicule yoga, mediation and spiritual practices, framing them as still somehow “far out."

Notes Photo September 28, 2015

On that Photo of the Pope and a Prisoner Holding Hands in Philadelphia

Condensing his visit to one powerful scene, the photo captures Pope Francis's challenge to America and its uncompromising political class to reach out.