Pfizer/Viagra's Handy CEO
This BAGnewsNotes slideshow, featuring the images of Getty photographer Mario Tama, looks at CEOs, especially as they come under new scrutiny from the administration and the press. The images were captured at press conference last week featuring Pfizer CEO Jeffrey B. Kindler and Bernard Poussot, CEO of Wyeth. Pfizer...
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Gitmo: Down To Its Last Happy Meal
This image, taken in March 2002 by contributer Lori Grinker, has stood out in my mind since I first saw it. It was taken at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo.
Continue ReadingAlan Chin From The Inauguration: First Draft Of History
What I find wonderful about Alan Chin's photos from the inauguration is how they seem to inject historical distance. At the same time the public is imbued with the freshness, energy, confidence, talent and vision of the Obama presidency, these images seem to ask: How will this week stand...
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From The Obama Train
BAGnewsNotes contributer Nina Berman offers us this emotional view from the Obama "Freedom Train."
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To Catch Sight Of The Freedom Train
This image captured today along the Obama Freedom train route by photographer Matt Lutton.
Continue ReadingGetting The BAG's Inauguration Coverage Started A Little Early
In kicking off our Inauguration coverage, we take a look back at these images from the Inauguration and Counter-Inauguration forty years ago.
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On New Years, I Think Of Fireworks
The soldiers had come up with a few fireworks and when they ran out they dug into their supply of flares and shot them out of the grenade launchers on their M-4 assault rifles. I set my camera up and caught this long exposure.
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Decaying Detroit
Photographer Tim Fadek forwards this image from a story he's working on about "decaying Detroit. It's a timely metaphor.
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Homeland: Lambs Eat Oats and Does Eat Oats and Little Goats Eat K-Rations
Welcome to the Iraq training simulation at Fort Polk, where -- in an thoroughly obsessive, if totally misbegotten notion about authenticity -- it completely matters to American national security whether exactly six, rather than eight, as opposed to ten goats should be let loose to roam around.
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Welcome Zoriah
As part of the continuing evolution of BNN, I am pleased to introduce you to our newest contributor, Zoriah Miller.
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Our Man In Grant Park: At The Turn
In advance of an Alan Chin slide show of last night's historic Obama victory, we start you off with this. The shot was taken at the Hilton at the party hosted by Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr.
Continue ReadingOur Man In Pennsylvania – Inside and Outside Two Rallies
Here's Alan Chin's finest, shot Tuesday at two different rallies, the McCain/Palin affair in Hershey and Palin's appearance in Shippensburg.
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Our Man In Pennsylvania – At the Rally
Alan Chin has some really curious shots from the McCain/Palin rally in Hershey and also Palin's rally in Shippensburg. I'll let you start off with this one.
Continue ReadingOur Man In Pennsylvania
I'm awed, but not an ounce surprised by the grand canyon-like gap between these personal reports and the experience of looking at similar images through the intensely-amped and all too controversy- or just poll-obsessed media sphere.... I what I also see -- although the white-corporate media isn't all that...
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The Latest From Alan Chin: Allentown, PA.
In spending part of the election's final days capturing the atmosphere, Alan passed on this single photo of a campaign volunteer.
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"I Feel Strongly About This Particular Point Because Of A Picture I Saw In A Magazine"
This is the image that crystallized, in Colin Powell's mind, how the GOP has completely gone off the tracks in polarizing this country. Think what you will of Powell himself, his reference to this photograph as a statement of inclusion and as a rebuttal to the hate being spread...
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On Debate Night, Alan Chin Checks In From Texas
Debate coverage: Alan Chin Checks In From Texas
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