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May 23, 2013

Military Sexual Harrassment Pic of the Day: The West Point Student Body

Talking 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?

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May 21, 2013

The Visual Power (and Inundation) of Tragedy: Oklahoma City and Newtown, Boston, Long Island, New Jersey, West, Bangladesh

Unless 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.

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May 21, 2013

OKC Tornado Photos: Iwo Jima

Most powerful images make it to the forefront by also tapping into our cultural and visual memory.

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May 20, 2013

People Who Live in Glass Boxes: The Arne Svenson Tribeca Telephoto Controversy

How 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?

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May 18, 2013

Afghan War Pictures: Forward Equals Backward, Up Equals Down

the visuals of the war effort have descended largely into parody.

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