Media Focus Archives - Page 8 of 44

Notes Photo May 20, 2015

Editorial Skunk Weed: TIME's Pot Smoking Portraits Misfire

After you've clicked through this fifteen photo slideshow introducing us to Denver pot smokers, can you tell me if you notice anything off about it?

Notes Photo May 15, 2015

Burundi in Crisis, Love the Headdress

I was struck by these portraits by photographers for Reuters, AP and AFP/Getty. Along with their existing captions is a second one I've volunteered to think about how these photos are actually consumed.

Notes Photo May 6, 2015

Remember that Angry Penguin? Now it's the Cows.

As climate change gains more visibility in the public square, it's interesting to observe how creatures are playing a supporting role.

Notes Photo May 5, 2015

Photographer Natalie Keyssar on Getting Baltimore Wrong

The photos capture a Baltimore that, unlike the stereotypical stories of anger and violence, poverty or neglect, is not one thing.

Notes Photo April 23, 2015

An Immigrant Walking: On the Stunning NYT Magazine / JR Cover

How can you call an image subtle when it’s 150 feet long, takes up an entire square in NYC and graces the cover of the NYT Magazine?

Notes Photo March 24, 2015

Obama at the Science Fair

It’s an indication of Obama’s self-assuredness that he tried out the goods in front of a room-full of news photographers at this year’s White House Science Fair.

Notes Photo March 23, 2015

On Der Spiegel's Jolly “Angela Merkel and the 7 Nazis” Cover

What’s going on, if you ask me, is the use of exaggeration and a bit of mockery to minimize the Greeks.

Notes Photo March 17, 2015

How We Look at the Black Man Who May or May Not Have Been Shooting at Two Officers in Ferguson

One would hope that editors would understand the moral and political liability of framing Williams as a protester, tainting the rallies and protests in Ferguson by suggesting the shooting of the officers was intentional, retaliatory or racially-motivated.

Notes Photo February 4, 2015

Robert Hariman On ISIS and the Choice Not To Look

So look. Then turn away. If you don’t need to look, I’m with you. Whatever you do, realize that the stakes are higher than had been imagined.

Notes Photo January 29, 2015

Pro Vs Amateur, and the Instagram Gallery On The New York Times Front Page

I don't see how this front page impacts the pro versus amateur argument in that big a way. Not as much, at least, as the blizzard of (free) publicity bestowed on Instagram and Facebook.

Notes Photo January 25, 2015

Syria-Tokyo-Cairo: The Information and the Drama As One

If scenes of terror and trauma used to be something you had to notice, today they're ubiquitous.

Notes Photo January 19, 2015

Brands Exploiting MLK Day: Not Just the Most Horrible Offenders, But Why

Focusing on tweets that were visual or hinged on visual language, I've identified ones that co-opted MLK into the brand, and in some instances, were overtly racist.