Our Man In New Hampshire #3: McCain/Lieberman '08
This is the third in a series of campaign dispatches by BNN Contributer Alan Chin from New Hampshire. This post focuses on John McCain and his 100 year Iraq war.
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Iraq Still There
Sign of the times, here's another shot from Michael Kamber, taken in Ramadi on December 8th. He writes: "Found hanging on the wall of the marine base here--an old bare cold dirty building wtih no furniture, just bare brick walls." War Is Over--Say the Pundits (FAIR) In a Force...
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Aja, Aja, Aja, Aja, OBollywood
What you have to like about the OBollywood video is the possibility that America -- after years of xenophobia -- might possibly find a way to embrace diversity, pluralism and multiculturalism.
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N.O. Demolition
On Thursday, over intense public opposition, the NO city council approved HUD's plan to demolish 4500 units of public housing and replace them with "mixed income development." Photographer Mario Tama -- who has been documenting one of the existing projects on and off for the past 6 months...
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First Hillbilly Armor, Now Osprey
At a unit cost of $100 million, and after $15+ billion and 25 years of development, this contraption has just recently been introduced in Iraq.
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The Comfort, The Comfort
Lori Grinker spent 23 day aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort in 2003, a month after the war started. What I find particularly powerful about her work is how the image is often a window to a larger story, or else the encapsulation of a conflictual or ironic truth.... ...
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Iraq: The Space Between. (First Pass)
It describes the gap between different peoples and cultures in Iraq. It attempts to show the space between two wars, the American invasion and the Iraqi civil war, the space between us and them, my experience and your experience.... —Christoph Bangert During the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003...
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Your Turn: War Time America
In her continuing look at militarization and the security of the homeland, contributer Nina Berman offers us a set of images tied to Atlantic City's "Thunder Over The Boardwalk" air show this past August.
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"Canyon of Heroes"
There are a number of things I find stunningly memorable about Lori Grinker's photo, taken on lower Broadway in the so-called "Canyon of Heroes" on June 10, 1991.
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All You Need Is Heroin: U.S. Troops In Their Own Hand
Photographer Peter van Agtmael has made two trips to Iraq and one to Afghanistan over the past couple years. Among his work over that time is a series, the idea of which is eminently logical, but which I haven't seen before. To capture a more raw if performative picture...
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Not Just Our Wounded
The image above is from Iraq's Brutally Wounded, based on the images of photographer Farah Nosh. It is the latest in a series of photo essays at Alternet produced by Nina Berman and co-sponsored by BAGnewsNotes. Nothing makes these images more accessible than their familial impact.
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More WTF: Point And Shoot
Vietnam bumper sticker -- “Join the army: Travel to exotic distant lands; meet exciting, unusual people and kill them." bumper sticker: http://carryabigsticker.com/images/join_army500.gif curiosity?... Illusion, propagated by politicians, conservatives and our own denial that the troops are all good, pristine, godly.... By taking their image, appropriates a piece of their...
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The Amnestic States Of America
Certainly, watch the Chris Morris slide show at Alternet that Nina Berman produced (and The BAG helped sponsor), and look at Morris' photo gallery at the Hasted Hunt gallery.
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More WTF: "Reported Progress" Edition
With the passage of time, we become more brutally capable of differentiating "progress" from "reported progress." As well, these two shots expose what Iraq became after 43 got his hands on it -- which was, and remains, a set.
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Steps Without A Casket
The casket that is not there reminds me of the way this war's symbols and rituals of death have been relegated, in large part, to the imagination.
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September 11, 2007
Photographer Alan Chin, who captured the WTC attack six years ago, returned again yesterday to observe the mood around the Ground Zero site.
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Black Boys With Guns: Fleet Week #2
Yesterday, I posted the first of a three-part series from Fleet Week. Photographer Nina Berman's images record the week-long festivities in New York involving the presence of naval ships, sailors, and military demonstrations and exhibitions all over the city. In this middle set of pictures, I'm interested in questions,...
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Asking Questions About America: Fleet Week #1
About two weeks ago, photographer Nina Berman sent me a series of photos she had shot during Fleet Week, and I've been looking at them every day since.
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