The Gabby Giffords Shooter Then and Now: Argument for Community Mental Health in One Glance
it's easy to ignore the demands and requirements of community mental health, then just chalk it up to evil when one of these slowly decompensating guys finally goes off.
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Wade Michael Page in the Crosshairs?
Not that the symbolism counts for much, so deep is the horror and contempt for Wade Michael Page. Still, the inclusion of this photo on his My Space page could be seen to weigh on his own viability.
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Shooting Aftermath: Visualizing the Sikhs in Oak Creek
My question is, how much does exoticism come into play picturing the Sikh community after the tragic shooting at the Temple in Oak Creek?
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"Disappeared" Olympic 7/7 Tribute: NBC Perpetuates Myth Terror Only Happens to Americans
NBC perpetuated the myth that terror only happened to Americans. That we can't identify or relate to the loss experienced by other peoples, other nations. That we don't look or feel like everyone else.
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James Holmes: Let the Mythologizing Begin
In the mundanity of Holmes' "uniform" in the theater parking lot, however, scattered on the pavement in the stark light of day, these sad, meager and scattered scraps of visual evidence speak just as much to the miles-wide gap between Hollywood and the theater inside Holmes' mind
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Obamas Atop One World Trade Center: The Nation's Clean Up Man
The significance of Obama atop the nation's most symbolic reclamation project.
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Gitmo Trial PR Strategy: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed & Co. vs. the 9/11 Families
One of the court room drawings frame the families in direct confrontation with the defendants, only larger and higher -- as if they were judges or jurors, as opposed to spectators.
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The Abbottabad Landscape: Disappearing bin Laden
The absence of bin Laden’s lair sends a clear signal that yes, the man himself is really, truly gone.
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Osama-Obama: How Al Jazeera Framed the bin Ladin Erasure
The frame Al Jazeera chose characterizes the operation as a contest for hearts and minds.
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al-Awlaki: What's Wrong with this Picture?
I am especially interested in this photo — and the opportunity for us to study it and think about it — since the Administration “predator-droned” Anwar al-Alwaki into the ground last Friday. (Yes, going forward, I recognize “predator drone” as a verb.) First, let’s consider the caption from TIME’s...
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September 11th: It Wasn't About What Happened, But What Could Be Narrated
The tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001 recycled and recirculated an enormous number of images. Many of them were familiar, the meaning of the event seemingly fixed. But anniversaries are part of the process of fixing memory, and as they are repeated they can obscure the uncertainty that prevailed...
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Reconstructing 9/11 with Nina Berman — The Still-Shattering Beehive
The argument is that the free market proved the main catalyst for the destruction that day.
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Reconstructing 9/11 with Nina Berman: Windows on the World
What's impressively prescient is how much the juxtaposition captures the equally blunt, hysterical and binary thinking of the Bush Administration's reaction to the 9/11 attacks.
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9/11 Covers: Beyond the One-Liner
Compared to the simplistic one-liners sprouting like mushrooms on cover after cover as part of the 9/11 ten year anniversary newsstand pileup, the New Statesman cover kept me going for a while.
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9/11 Artifacts: Who Will Take the American Airlines Slipper?
Who is in line for the slipper?
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Afghanistan: Field of Dreams II
Poppies and opium fields have been favorite visual subject matter since the war began. In this case, the question is how much resonance there is between the dreamy pictures, the effect of the plants and the logic of the build up and now, potential drawdown?
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Reading The New Yorker "Erasing bin Laden" Cover: A Process, Not an Act
The thoughtful and more realistic message communicated by the latest New Yorker cover, as compared to the TIME bin Laden snuff job is...
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Narcissist! Couch Potato! Twelve-Year-Old! — DoD Spins bin Laden Watching the TeeVee
Why is the DoD video of bin Laden watching TV so much more devastating than the "rehearsal" clip also released this past weekend?
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