Clinton: Ho Hum And Worse

Perhaps everyone is tired of the Clintons (Mr/Mrs), including the NYT. This photo is an expression of same and, yeah, it’s mean.
The photo The Bag referenced of Hillary, however, is remarkable. One thing that bothered me about Hillary has been her fixed expression and the immobility of her face, the set mouth. Now we are seeing a tired and discouraged Hillary. But in this expression and in her words earlier, lie the unmistakable hint of the expectation of privilege and the outrage at being so denied. I think it’s just that sense of privilege that people are voting against.

As a former photojournalist, my 2 cents worth:
With a campaign this long, all the boys on the bus begin to create narratives in their heads about the campaign (something to hang their hats on when they run out of ideas, which is often) and how any given photo op is going to fit into that narrative.
This week’s narrative is “tired.”
On the other hand, maybe the editor told the shooter that they were going to do a sidebar on the bone-crushing fatigue of a political campaign and that’s what the shooter delivered. The take got scrambled or an editor (art director, actually) working on a different story got handed the seconds from the sidebar shoot, and voila! Polaroid editorial.
Just a guess. Who knows what editors think?