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Disaster Focus Photo March 22, 2011

Jake Price in Japan: Dispatch From The Quake Zone

Back in Sendai from the epicenter of the Japanese earthquake, photographer Jack Price captures the ordeal, and brave spirits, of survivors.

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Obama vs. Gaddafi: Who’s A Head?

If this picture caught the imagination of photo editors — the souvenir hung on a destroyed government tank by the Libyan rebels following a coalition airstrike — it might have a greater symbolic significance. Now that Obama has stuck his neck out — not just to bolster the Libyan insurgency...

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War & Militarism Photo March 21, 2011

Thoughts on the American Kill Squad Photographs

We offer our thoughts on the trophy photos created by the homicidal Joint Base Lewis-McChord Army kill squad.

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Her AK

If it was just a guy firing straight into the air, this never would have made the wires.

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Gaddafi: Asking for Shrapnel

This is the best photo of the Gaddafi-fist-crushing-U.S. fighter plane-sculpture I've seen. (And it might not been for long.)

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There is People Power and There is Firepower

Eighteen days in Egypt, Tahrir chock full of tanks, and hardly did I see a photo as phallic as this one.

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Alan Chin Photo March 20, 2011

Alan Chin on the Middle East: Ghosts of Suez and Srebrenica

In this momentous period in the Middle East, Alan Chin reflects on military interventions that didn't happen, concerns for the one that has, and the emotional forces at play for a photojournalist now back home, while friends and colleagues remain at risk.

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And This Photo Symbolizes…?

Two days later, still trying to figure out what this picture means....

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Disaster Focus Photo March 18, 2011

Bahrain: Crushing the Pearl

Bahrain's leader's don't understand how much a public monument, especially a poetic one, is part of the emotional fabric of a city, its destruction only emphasizing its erasure and inviting every citizen to fill in the hole with a memory of the structure and the circumstances surrounding its...

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TIME's "Meltdown" Cover: Insight, or Working Japanese Stereotype?

What I'm wondering is how much this cover frames the intense grief and loss one would see in any culture, given the circumstances, and how much the media's response is informed by cultural stereotyping, these crying image psivoting off Japanese stoicism.

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Protest Focus Photo March 17, 2011

No Toto, You're Not in the Wisconsin Statehouse Anymore

I thought these screenshots -- displaying an elegant, if typical, marbled, upscale DC office complex -- made for an interesting contrast with the Wisconsin State House, as pro-union and progressive protesters upped the ante Tuesday by interjecting themselves into a lobbying seat of power.

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Tyler Hicks and Lynsey Addario Missing

We pray for Tyler, Lynsey, Stephen and Anthony's safe return.

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The Outright Sense of Normal in the Midst of Holy Hell

How a photo of the Japan tsunami plays with disaster -- and our sense of denial.

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Disaster Focus Photo March 16, 2011

Diane Sawyer Watches

This "behind the scenes" photo from the ABC News show somehow struck me.

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Fukushima Dai-ichi: They Broke the Sky

Whether Japan's crippled reactors were painted powder blue and were just showing wear, or there was real art there, they are iconic symbols now.

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Why is There No Looting in Japan?

What rings most false though is the lack of desperation in the photo. This store might be running low on most supplies, but the woman down the aisle, at least to me, looks like she's shopping.

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Disaster Focus Photo March 15, 2011

Tracking Radiation Levels in Tokyo: A Minorly Scary Photo

I guess the main issue, in this photo, and in Japan to this point, when it comes to radiation, is: what is the definition of "minorly."

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Hillary's Ecstacy

The sexualization of Hillary lives on.

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