Alan Chin In New Orleans: Checking In
This message arrived from Alan Chin about an hour ago: "just arrived NOLA after 22 hour drive from denver including an hour to buy supplies ...."
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Lieberman Co-Chairs The Disappropriation Committee
Planted between these two chairs, the suggestion is that Lieberman is somehow located in between the two parties -- with the jury out in terms of where he might park.
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Chris Nearly Drowns
Love the Abu Ghraib perp walk and the friendlies with ski masks -- not to mention, the forest scene.
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Standard Operating Procedure
What is stunning about Errol Morris's generative idea for his latest film, "Standard Operating Procedure," is the observation that everyone looked at the Abu Ghraib photos (and reacted in the extreme), but nobody really "looked into" them -- not to the extent one would typically attempt to ask and...
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So, So?
I think I've become anesthetized not just to the mind-bending arrogance of Dick Cheney, but to the tendency of the media to either giggle, or simply look away.
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The Revolution Will Not Be Blogged
Unless this was a photoshop job, if that really even mattered, here were BHO and HRC in front of our man, Ché. No Wellstone, no Finegold, fine. But then I started to think, if I studied the picture long enough, wouldn't one of these two suddenly emerge as being...
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Your BAG/World Press Wednesday: PKK
World Press '08 - People in the News: 1st prize stories Philippe Dudouit, Switzerland, for Time magazine. PKK fighters, Northern Iraq
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Your BAG/World Press Tuesday: Last Combat Injury?
World Press '08 - Spot News: 3rd prize stories Michael Kamber, USA, The New York Times. Searching for missing soldiers, Latafiya, Iraq, 18 May
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Your BAG/World Press Monday: Putin
Turning Over The Ship: Day 1 Portraits: 1st prize singles Platon, UK, for Time magazine.
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Your BAG/World Press Sunday: From Gaza City
World Press '08 - Spot News: Honorable Mention Emilio Morenatti, Spain, The Associated Press.
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Your BAG/World Press Saturday: The Range
World Press '08: General News: Honorable Mention Christoph Bangert, Germany, Laif for Stern.
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Badly Lacking
What these pics make me think -- beyond the (not so) subliminal -- was how Rove, with all his exacting visual message discipline, would never have let either of these shots happen.
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Your Turn: Those Cards At The Economist
Between the faces, suits, colors, order, layering, spacing, orientation, scale, movement on the cover of the new Economist, what is the message about the U.S. election?
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Our Man In New Hampshire #6: Choices
This is the sixth in a 72-hour series of campaign dispatches from photojournalist and BNN Contributer Alan Chin.
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Our Man In New Hampshire #1: Rockin' With Huck
BNN Contributer Alan Chin is on the ground in New Hampshire in the final days before the primary. Between now and Tuesday, The BAG offers you exclusive access to his impressions, candidate-by-candidate.
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Ace Candidate
TIME's Year in Images is out and I fixed immediately on this one.... Title: Everything A Man Needs Caption: Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney visits a hardware store in Goffstown, New Hampshire. (h/t Chris) (image: Brooks Kraft/Corbis for TIME. New Hampshire.
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Finally, The Cheney 2007 Holiday Card: The Great Lights
On most counts, it's about the most generic thing you've ever seen in your life. But then, I got to thinking how the words went together with the picture. If pop-open the inside above, it reads: GIVE THANKS TO THE LORD OF LORDS; WHO MADE THE GREAT LIGHTS --...
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Getting Whupped
It's when the minority leader gets his picture in the paper, spreading four columns in the print edition, sitting in his oversized office, illustrating an article on Senate Muscle Flexing, with such fine touches as....... The working the phones/hatching strategy pose, the finger spread indicating, maybe, the difference between...
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