Is it significant, then, in a city that is 63% black, that the photos of fans just beyond the gates aren't all that racially balanced?
Continue ReadingPeople from the United States have been looking at South American volcanoes and seeing them as metaphors for what’s happening at home for at least one hundred and fifty years.
Continue ReadingWhat was particular to the photo coverage of protest violence this week was the portraiture. I don't recall citizens so willing to share their venom with news photographers in an actual pose.
Continue ReadingMaybe the reporter knows something we don't because his reaction to this potentially explosive situation is primarily one of bemusement.
Continue ReadingRituals of public memory have always been about forming the community through public display—using cultural materials to fashion and shape how "we" want to remember ourselves.
Continue ReadingWe don’t love the photos of the Calbuco Volcano because the eruption reminds us of a Yellowstone geyser, a giant 4-H winning cauliflower or the perfect backdrop for the monotonous subdivision.
Continue ReadingHow can you call an image subtle when it’s 150 feet long, takes up an entire square in NYC and graces the cover of the NYT Magazine?
Continue ReadingOf all the nature and eco images I’ve seen lately, this hit me like a bucket of ice water.
Continue ReadingIsn't it curious how people tend to think about "ecology" as it relates to plants and air and water and less in terms of humanity and how much we look out for each other.
Continue ReadingThese are some images and thoughts that struck me about the visual media coverage of the catastrophe as photos filled galleries and illustrated news stories this morning.
Continue ReadingTypically, news pictures prompt us to visualize the continuous action in our own mind.
Continue ReadingThis photograph doesn’t tell us anything important that we don’t know, but it does provide the means to think about what we would rather ignore.
Continue ReadingTalking irony, it's notable to lose Tunbjörk just at the start of this next presidential marathon. Who knows how the photographer would have approached the selling of the candidates this cycle.
Continue ReadingThe amount of posturing, aggressiveness and and even presumption in the Clinton's political DNA notwithstanding, I found the Hillary '16 kickoff parodies way off-key.
Continue ReadingThe examples are interesting in illustrating how, through distributed or pick-up photography, the visual media will visually represent and often stereotype by role, circumstance and manner as well as ethnicity and race.
Continue ReadingThis photo was submitted by one of our readers, Don Fitzsimons, responding to a comment about the picture in the Jakarta Post.
Continue ReadingWhen it comes to organizing daily patterns of mobility and interaction, our machines steer us around just as much as we do.
Continue ReadingWith the abundant comparisons to FedEx, what's telling right off the bat is that categorically, it's more corporate than populist or even political -- by miles.
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