Serpentine Days
I found yesterday's "last visual word" on the Petraeus testimony a really telling image. It was paired with a headline dealing with the bleakness of the General's testimony. In the dead-tree version, you can see all the shoes on the the floor, prompting John Lucaites, a BAG contributer to...
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BagNewsSalon: The Korengal Valley View
Today at 4pm PST/7pm EST, BAGnewsNotes presents "Reading the Pictures: The View From Korengal Valley." This 90 minute discussion is the first meeting of the BAGnewsSALON, a real-time discussion forum dedicated to the singular analysis and discussion of social and political images.
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Seeing The Enemy
It is easy to imagine the head of Blackwater as the Prince of Darkness, and the media have done a pretty good job of that. But what if Prince is a scapegoat for our collective sins and the all too easy willingness of the American public to allow their...
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The Image at the End of the Tunnel
What we see is a thoroughly fragmented Iraq, a world of disconnected moments in space and time; although we clearly see what is there, it is hard to know what it might mean. We have no sense of context outside the vehicle and no basis for response to what...
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"Iwo Jima? Uh Oh!"
A couple weeks ago, John Lucaites joined our discussion thread about a photo I posted from Greensburg, Kansas. John, along with Robert Hariman, are co-authors of the newly released No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy. Their book, and their theoretical approach to iconic photos,...
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