Trayvon Through Another Black Man-Child: Three Views From Photographer Mario Tama
Likely close in age to the eleven-year-old Tayvon Martin in the widely adopted photo of the dead seventeen-year-old, these photos of Seminole County resident Jayden Jackson by Getty photographer Mario Tama draw out different dimensions of the tragedy.
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The Trayvon Optics So Far
If Trayvon was a little moody at times or putting some attitude on display, that actually situates him along teenage norms much more so than when I see him posed on a horse.
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Through SCOTUS Demos & Visual Noise, Tea Party vs. Obama
The atmosphere was either “festive” and “wonderful” or filled with “hollering and screaming.” This image, however, hints at the broader deliberative dynamics shaping the health insurance debate.
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Putting the Atheist Point A-Cross
Looking at photos of the Reason Rally, I’m struck by how many ralliers depend on religious iconography to visually express their atheism.
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Trying to Get a Fix on Occupy, Spring Edition
If the first photo seems frivolous, it does provocatively raise the question whether the movement still has a constructive face to present.
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If I Had a Hammer
This photo conveys a yet-unclassified demographic which is more a threat to the GOP in the general and local elections come November: The middle-aged, middle class woman who votes.
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Female Legislators Walk: If A Tree Falls in a (Male) Forest
Let's not forget the scene from still another angle, which involves all those women witnessing the abuse play out from the gallery, proverbial and otherwise.
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Occupy and the Visual Media: Bring in the Clowns?
Inspecting these two photos documenting the F29 Zuccotti Park action, it's hard to come to a different conclusion than the movement (and specifically here, the crackdown on the movement) is serving as an amusement.
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Unprobed Rage
Maybe what's so striking about the photo is how Margaret Doyle's reaction should come as such a surprise.
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Photo Awards Can Be Prospective, Too: POYi and Greece on Fire
... And then, shockingly (talking about how a photo can seem like a template), today's newswires are full of more Greek policeman on fire.
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Big Media: "Terrorist" Occupy Movement Sets Fire to America!
Big media looks to do-in Occupy? Flag burning photo as extreme prejudice.
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Not Your Usual Adbusters Cover?
For once, I don't think Adbusters is trying to provoke at all.
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OWS MLK: Taking Account(s)
It's the photo from today's trove that most closely captures King's philosophy and that of the Occupy movement .
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Juxtaposition of the (New) Year: Times Square / Zuccotti Park
Call it a tale of two cities -- or Bloomberg goes Gaga as nightsticks swing.
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Photo of Woman Stripped by Egyptian Military: Not Shamed, Not a Victim
This image does not portray a victim. It portrays a hero—a warrior waging a battle for democracy.
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"Trends in Political Photographs" – 2011
BagNews lists the top trends and themes in news photos in this "revolutionary" year.
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Our Take on TIME's Very Smart "Person of the Year" Protester Cover
What makes the cover as good as it is? Number one, it's a woman!
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Police vs. Occupy: Who's Protecting Whom Against What?
You know, you look at these pictures of riot police filming their arrests of Occupy protesters, and it lends the impression that there is some kind of care, order and sanity to the whole dance, rather than just a matter of CYA, especially when there are so many other...
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