Maybe what really sells a news photo these days is the sense one is looking at a movie still.
Continue ReadingA post about child servitude in Haiti, deleted from the New York Times Lens Blog, serves as the basis for questions about the ethics of photojournalism, the practice of online journalism and the issues involved when the American media market trains a lens on ethical behavior in a country...
Continue ReadingMore than anything, what his team broadcasts with the photos is that it wasn't a kid Zimmerman was paranoid over that night.
Continue ReadingOf course, expanding a freight yard in the middle of the country’s third largest city isn’t simply a matter of construction.
Continue ReadingAs carefully as "Staff Sgt. Miguel Deynes prepares a final uniform for Capt. Aaron R. Blanchard," I'm drawn as much or more to the hanging uniforms and the racks of pink circles containing different insignias and medals.
Continue ReadingTIME unearths these photos of Obama with his (white) high school friends and prom date. But what relevance do they have?
Continue ReadingWhat's so novel and unique about the footage is how this man looked and sounded so rational, even deferential and slightly apologetic after butchering the British soldier.
Continue ReadingTalking about the military's latest sexual harassment black eye, I was wondering what you thought of the photo accompanying yesterday's NYT story about female cadets at West Point being taped surreptitiously in the shower?
Continue ReadingUnless OKC was just strangely synchronistic with recent traumas, perhaps a concerning side-effect of this steady diet of disaster is that all the imagery starts to run together.
Continue ReadingMost powerful images make it to the forefront by also tapping into our cultural and visual memory.
Continue ReadingWe learn about the horrors of the day in Halabja from everybody, everywhere and every time. They are told in stories and memorials. Whenever we get together as a family, sometimes watching old footage, we would talk about that day.
Continue ReadingHow is it Svenson didn't know that, in a city build on wealth and status, money -- floating glass boxes or not -- also buys you transparency?
Continue Readingthe visuals of the war effort have descended largely into parody.
Continue ReadingWhat does it say when an actor, known for symbolizing ruthless corporate types, "goes the other way?"
Continue ReadingThe talented Dharapak uses the weather to frame a President battling D.C.'s political elements.
Continue ReadingSo it turns out that there really are two sets of rules: the rules that guide reporting what is supposed to be said, and the rules that insure that some things are not said.
Continue ReadingBased on detailed scientific analysis, it has finally been established that a photo doesn't have to be fake to be incredible on its face.
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