Multiracial Zimmerman Protest Photos: Sign of Change or Wishful Thinking?
One thing that struck me immediately about the photo coverage of the response to the Zimmerman verdict, distinct from at least recent civil rights inspired imagery, is the number of newswire images highlighting a multi-racial response.
Continue ReadingDeen's Savannah Kitchen: Lunch Boycott or Still Frying High?
Here's something you don't see every day. Two news stories describing the same scene in the same place, both backed up with photos, but attesting to something completely opposite.
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Team Zimmerman's Trayvon Photos: Pictured from a Cell
More than anything, what his team broadcasts with the photos is that it wasn't a kid Zimmerman was paranoid over that night.
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Burning Issues in California: All in One Frame
It's certainly one of the more simple and eloquent newswire photos I've seen in a while the way it juxtaposes two very large but visually separate politically-charged issues.
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Stereotypes of Black Violence … and Photography Playing with Your Head: That Karales Photo at Lens Blog
Racism and racial stereotypes being so grounded in our culture, I was lost for meaning when I first saw this.
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Busted by Mecklenburg County? Call it Trial by Internet
I can't say how many other online newspaper sites do something similar, but the digital paper offers a photo post which is a cross between and the local crime report and a rogue's gallery.
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Your Turn: Hispanic Values
A bit of a far cry from: "looking for a few good men," wouldn't you say?
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The School Turnaround Dance
The lead image in the slideshow captures the hostile danse ballet of what American schools have become.
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The Dutch Media's Immigrant Photo Drama
If journalists had read the caption, they would never have taken this photo of Moroccan immigrants so out-of-context.
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Getting Pinked: Arizona (Still) Using "Emasculation Jail" in Anti-Immigration Fight
Getty photographer John Moore is thoroughly right to call out the tactic of humiliation in the treatment of undocumented immigrant detainees in Phoenix. What's even more troubling, however, is that this is not a new story.
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Visual Politics and the Border Fence: Still Everybody's Dog Whistle
Expect more photos of politicians clinging to that border like their very own security blanket … and the militarized zone that McCain insists it isn't.
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Camel Jockeys, Mexican Desperados, Male Bashing Show Girls: Coke's '13 Super Bowl Chase Ad
Obviously, these commercials are a complex mash of every seducing and agitating cultural hook they can metaphorically lay claim to.
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Immigration (Through the Conservative Windshield)
What does the GOP see when they consider immigration?
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Hillary, Biden and the Early Picture on the '16 African-American Vote
If the Democrats are looking for someone for African-Americans and other minority groups to get excited about, it's hard to see things going Biden's way.
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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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Little Klansman
Of course, the natural pull is to focus on the child and his interaction with the riot cop. What I find as much or more interesting, however, is the two-thirds of the photo beyond the child.
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Picture of Awkward: Romney the White Guy
Mitt, didn't we say never to flash the benjamins around?
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F-ing With Your Mind: What Makes the Austin "Chair Lynching" so Brilliantly Hateful
I posted this on the Bag’s Facebook page yesterday not knowing how much the discussion and disturbance surrounding it would grow. As not just an analyst of visual politics but having done my doctoral dissertation on the psychological properties of effective metaphors, I wanted to explain in a simple...
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