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Campaign '12 Photo April 21, 2011

Obama Meets Facebook

I’m fascinated with Wednesday’s photos from Palo Alto and what’s going on with the two brands. On the one hand, it seems that Zuckerberg and Facebook subsume Obama, reducing the President to, yeah, just another face on FB. On the other hand, if Facebook is “all that” right now,...

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Misurata (and Grieving)

I look at this photo from the day after and I imagine you can still see their footprints on Tripoli Street

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Remembering Chris: Hondros at BagNews

Though the work we did together was modest and its duration brief, I offer you these two pieces by Chris along with one post I did quite a bit earlier honoring his exquisitely assured war photography.

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Everywhere is War

Has militarism become a foregone conclusion, and a bankable future of the Western World?

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President Obama Photo April 20, 2011

Birther Bait (or: Let Campaign '12 Begin!)

If the  upcoming NYT Mag article on Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, is deeply researched and nuanced, I’m afraid the newly uncovered family photo accompanying it will be all-too-happily greeted by birthers eager to equate the President to a Somali pirate. Of course, the Hawaiian photo appears just a day...

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Haiti/Japan: Similar Disaster, Different Pictures

When we look West to Japan we see something rather like ourselves. When we look South, however, we see something altogether different.

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Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington

Our prayers go out to you, Chris, and every finger is crossed.

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Photo April 19, 2011

Boehnocchio

C'mon, we know how many of you, in the privacy of your own drum circle, pronounce John's last name like phallic slang.

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Fukushima: Terror Turning Just a Little Robotic

Robots are cool. Robot pictures are about the future, and science, and the application of advanced technological capability and know-how. And generally, robot pictures are fun.

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Campaign '12 Photo

Palin Wisconsin

It was one thing to bask in the glow when the Tea Party had the media to itself and there was no end to the eccentricity. However, with Wisconsin the lightening rod for a two-sided battle driven by quite sober political and economic concerns, Palin is looking less substantive...

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Protest Focus Photo April 18, 2011

Race-y Pictures

I'm wondering if this guy was that bad at laying out the sign, or if he didn't actually telegraph one of the primary underlying fears/motivators behind the Tea Party movement.

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Campaign '12 Photo April 16, 2011

Donald Framed

By the way, I don't think the corner is unfinished ala Washington’s portrait. I think it's just the flash. The effect, though, doesn't go badly with that sky and the sense of heavenly power, potential storm and rays from a deity.

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Afghanistan Photo April 15, 2011

Soldier-Taggers: Afghanistan as Fight Club

Street art depends on disrupting the order and values of everyday life. Except, that is, when it's riffing off of "Fight Club" and posted on a NATO military base in Afghanistan.

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David Degner Photo

David Degner in Cairo: The Revolution Continues

David Degner updates from Cairo: If photographers aren't present, the story doesn't exist -- or at least it is much harder to pin down.

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Protest Focus Photo April 14, 2011

Scott Walker: The Factory Photo-Op

Here's the photo of Scott Walker addressing factory workers that got picked up by the AP, and which also ran in yesterday's NYT update article. Great visual, right? ...By design, that's true.

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Photo April 13, 2011

Obama Budget Politics: Target Ryan

A photo likes this makes me love the practice of photojournalism, the picture nailing the political strategy behind Obama's surprise budget address.

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Afghanistan Photo

Great Pic from the Benghazi Street, Hanging Up on 3rd World Stereotypes

Props to the NYT for this photo this morning on Libya. It high time to defy the stereotypes.

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Campaign '04 Photo April 12, 2011

France's Niqab Ban: Tricolor Face of the New Feminism

The French law states that women who cover in public are subject to a fine and also must enroll in a “citizenship course,” however, the young woman in this picture seems to understand citizenship better than the Sarkozy administration.

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