Ray, Janay, and the "News Photo as Movie Still-of-the-Week"
One point I touched on was how liberally news photographs are experimenting with style, including channeling the cinema.
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Pictures from the Giants World Series Riot you Haven't Seen in Other Victory Riots
To the extent the celebration turned ugly, there were factors at play beyond the influence of alcohol or generalized frustration. Resentment over the tech boom and gentrification-on-steroids seemed very much on display.
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Hong Kong: The Umbrella As State-of-Mind
As the signature of a movement enduring dismemberment , the umbrella ceases to be just one more umbrella, just as the wire cutters cease to be just a tool.
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A Simple News Photo from Hong Kong Calls out the Economics
n this age of Citizens United, oligarchy, marauding socialist market economies and free markets aligned with the value of "all-for-one," when do you ever see a protest photo that captures and illustrates the enterprise system itself — as opposed to the crackdown in the streets in defense of that...
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And We'll Get Back to Those Slain Black Youths Right After Baseball
It’s a troubling commentary on our cultural and media priorities that the civil rights story and the playoff hoopla have been so seamlessly grafted.
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Hong Kong: He Says Umbrella Revolution, She Says Post-it Note
If the umbrella is a more functional item, the Post-It note is more reflective of the word, the voice, a multiplicity of voices -- and social in the old fashioned way.
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"Hands Up, Don't Shoot," Hong Kong Edition
From the photos I've seen, the youth in Hong Kong are deploying the gesture in a less complicated way.
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Mother Earth Isn't White … and Other Climate Change Protest Pics That Caught Our Eye
...Or, enough sightseeing, time to do something.
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What That Picture From Michael Brown's Funeral Does That Few Photos Ever Do
If we're talking about the tone of a news photo, which we often do, we're either addressing its visual gradations or it's emotional quality, not something audible.
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On that Picture of Obama Dancing During the Ferguson Turmoil
Until white right-wing critics suddenly become the official arbiters of political correctness, let's just say the President has many roles to play in public.
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Tank Man, Inc.
I have no doubt that China needs more democracy, but I would not offer the present mix of populism and neoliberalism that defines politics in the US today as a splendid model to which they should aspire.
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The Open-and-Shut Assault Case Against Occupy Activist, Cecily McMillan: Just Look at the Pictures
And, if you thought this story had to do with anything more than the state and a woman's body, this shot puts that to rest.
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Occupying #MyNYPD
How fitting what might be the first social media mass demonstration is playing out on truly communal real estate.
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More on the Photo Exploitation of Kiev: Esquire's Hashtag Mining
Going back again, you can see how Esquire was looking for matches that were not only the most dramatic, garish or ironically artful but made the subject in the "before" photo seem almost clownish or callously vain.
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Pussy Riot vs. Cossacks at the Olympics: A War of Images (This Time)
Who knows what will happen when the Olympic spotlight is no longer trained on Putin.
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The Pictures Standing Out: Kiev Afire
Between the newswire and the Twitterverse, yesterday's photos from Ukraine were both intense and inescapable. Here's a collection of the most prominent.
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Putin & Sochi: Let the FU's Begin
We can break down the lines of attack into three categories: Olympic ring modification; the mocking of Putin's macho preoccupation with his own bod, the typology also setting homo-erotic bells ringing; and finally, Putin's outright gay-ification.
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