Family Snaps vs. There Must be Blood: More Gay Marriage Protest Optics
Love versus hate. Intimacy versus righteousness. That's how you can visually differentiate the two sides in the gay marriage protests outside the Supreme Court.
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On the Wrong Side of History: Further Thoughts on an Iconic Civil Rights Photograph
If Gadsden is kicking his knee into the police dog’s throat, it’s very likely a defensive reaction
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Pro-Life: Sell it Like Civil Rights … or Pepsi
Seeing fewer fetuses, and self-righteous and rageful statements, made me wonder if there might actually be a more rational tone strategically settling in to the movement.
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French Eco/Youth/Farm Revolt: What Protest Looks Like Now?
Pictures from this fight over between "the man" and the protesters over the commercial development of dwindling open space makes for strange viewing. Is living in an increasingly visual and media-rich culture leading to more powerful and evocative depictions of protest?
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Dear Occupy: Sorry We Missed Your Birthday
Because the conditions that motivated Occupy's existence remain largely unchanged from a year ago, it's truly painful to see the protests in the streets of Manhattan this week ignored as "same ol' same ol'," and primarily dismissed as a birthday party.
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What’s in a Picture? — #IslamicRage Meets #OccupyWallStreet
So many people have emailed me this photo, I wanted to hear your thoughts about it. Here’s the caption: Egyptian protesters wearing Guy Fawkes masks pose for a photo graffiti on a wall of the U.S. embassy during a protest in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. Egyptian protesters, largely...
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Homophobic Boy Scouts, Paterno on the Run, Dubya the Economist? Notorious Photo Edits of the Week
It seems photo editors were in a quite a mood this week.
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American Workers Broken and Angry… The Perfect Advertising Opportunity!
So, the hot trend in corporate advertising is to repurpose the "stress" and "sense of rebellion" American workers are feeling today ... for whatever reason??
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FEMEN-ism in the Fan Zone: Women Laying Bodies on the Line
As women use their bodies as instruments of resistance and protest, one would only hope cameras would pay attention to them with their clothes on.
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Scenes From the Stop and Frisk March — Photos by Nina Berman
These photos were taken at Sunday’s silent march in Manhattan protesting the NYPD’s bias in conducting racially-biased searches. The man’s suit and the quote as a historical reference seem to anchor this gentleman in the civil rights movement, an effect he quite likely had in mind. (His sign reads:...
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Best Dressed for Unrest: NYPD's Disarming Summer Fashion Statement
The "casual Friday" approach to protest suppression.
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Chicago Riot Cops Defending Art Institute from the People? Now, That's Surreal.
I'm sure this photo of Chicago riot cops protecting the Art Institute of Chicago looks cool to some, but it couldn't be more blasphemous.
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The Pacification of Protest. (Photo by Nina Berman from the NATO Summit.)
Between these two faces are also overriding questions about the physical and perceptual battle these large urban demonstrations have become.
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Put On a Happy Face. (Nina Berman From the NATO Summit)
Nina Berman is in Chicago documenting events on the ground during the 2012 NATO Summit. These reports are based on our phone conversations about the events and her imagery. This is the first installment.
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NYPD "Snatch and Grab" Tactics Illustrated (and, Why the Pics are So Scarce)
If the bandwidth for reporting, visual and otherwise, is all too narrow, it's also true news photographers almost always have a lot more truth to show and tell.
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Excrement
It takes a photographer as sure and serious as Getty's John Moore to pull off a photo like this....
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May Day Spiral
There's a perverse logic to the fact these hooligans choose to take out their frustration on the retail face of a sports-entertainment empire all-too-popular for its violence.
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