April 2010 - Reading The Pictures

BagNewsSalon Visual Week In Review Photo April 30, 2010

Visual Week in Review: Natural and Unnatural

BagNewsSalon’s Visual Week in Review looks at what's natural and unnatural in the coverage of violent volcanoes and oil spills, as well as political rock stars and the White House vs. Wall Street image war.

Campaign '10 Photo

Gordon Brown: Put Your Face Straight, Now

Brown is unusually dialed in and overbearing with Gillian Duffy, who's no member of Parliament but just an ordinary citizen.

Photo April 29, 2010

Obama’s Tear

If Bush cried too, it was in spite of the chip on his shoulder.

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Crude Comparison

Do you think the German's are laughing at us from behind their (offshore) windmills?

John Lucaites Photo April 28, 2010

Transforming the Visual Trope of Totalitarianism

John Lucaites looks at the the photos of wheelchair-bound Palestinian photojournalist Osama Silwadi, and the tank as the symbol of the totalitarian state.

Protest Focus Photo

Have a Little God with your Tea

Has the Christian Right just made its move on the Tea Party movement?

Campaign '10 Photo

Easy as Pie?

Obama hits the road to kick off the '10 mid-term elections while, back in DC, the Dems paint the GOP as defenders of Wall Street.

Cara Finnegan Photo April 27, 2010

Papal Exposure

What the camera on the right suggests about the sex abuse crisis.

The Great Recession Photo

Mr. Blankfein Becomes a Whine

Cry me a river x 2.

Iraq and Afghanistan War Photo

PowerPoint (or, Afghanistan in one Simple Picture)

What Liz Bumiller calls Stan's "spaghetti."

Originals Photo April 26, 2010

Anthony Suau: Death Of A Good Job

Second of a series of posts looking at The Great Recession through the lens of Detroit, the auto show and the photos of award-winning Anthony Suau.

Campaign '10 Photo

Perry Should've 'Cowboyed Up'

Statesman.com's John Kelso dishes out some tough, Texas-style photo analysis in response to the Rick Perry Newsweek cover.

Eco Watch Photo

When Beauty is Humility

Human beings should strive to preserve the earth that will outlast them, and to create societies that can work in concert with nature rather than in the pursuit of dominion. To that end, beauty is a form of moral truth.

BagNewsSalon Slideshow Interviews Photo April 25, 2010

Ashley Gilbertson: Bedrooms of the Fallen

Photojournalist Ashley Gilbertson has photographed the bedroom of deceased U.S. soldiers for the past three years. Hear him speak about the images in this audio slideshow from BagNewsSalon.