War/No War. Reading Spencer Platt’s NY Veterans Day Parade Photos
As you well know from reading this site, I think newswire photos are an endless source of untapped cultural information and that wire photographers are typically under-appreciated for their...
View ArticleFrom Russia With Love: Pounding Syria in the Name of Paris
So it looks like Reuters has aligned with Obama in calling out Russia’s military response to last week’s terror. In light of the ISIS attack in France, and the previous destruction of a Russian...
View ArticlePolice Ride-Along Photography and Natalie Keyssar’s New Turn
Note: this post is an extended version of a panel presentation given at the Image Truth/Story Truth conference on Oct 16th 2015 at the Columbia Journalism School. We offer it now as part of our running...
View ArticleWorld Press Photo Winners: Mary F. Calvert and Military Sexual Assault
I wanted to focus on Mary Calvert’s photo project involving women raped or sexually assaulted while serving in the U.S. military. It won first place for long term projects at World Press. Of the...
View ArticleOur Post-Orlando Riffs on Mark Peterson’s NRA Convention Photos
A grip on the country. @NRA convention 3 weeks before #Orlando @petersonpixs @MSNBCPhoto https://t.co/aozgIKfwiq pic.twitter.com/MPHxrUqH4x — Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) June 14, 2016 Dress...
View ArticleTrump vs the Khans, in Pictures
If you’re following the presidential campaign at all, you know Donald Trump has got himself into an insane fight with Khizr Khan and his wife Ghazala, the parent of a Muslim-American soldier killed in...
View ArticleMemory, Poetry and Politics: Thoughtful Views from Instagram on the 15th...
In recent anniversary years, we’ve been interested in new, or unpublished photos of 9/11 to help us remember, process and mourn. Last year, we published a unique photo of boys on bicycles at Ground...
View ArticleAleppo as the 21st Century Hiroshima?
We might want to think of Aleppo as the Hiroshima of the 21st century. This photograph brought the analogy to mind, and yet it would seem to argue against the comparison. The Hiroshima mushroom cloud...
View ArticleOn the Photos of the Russian Ambassador’s Assassination in Ankara: Our Tweet...
The chilling murder of the Russian Ambassador in Ankara yesterday was a photographic event, as much as it was a serious political event. But the overlap between online and social media, visual...
View ArticleBlack Soldiers as White House Props, Once Again
Though not as reviled as Trump, George W. Bush was also deeply unpopular with African-Americans. His brain, though (that’s what they called his strategist, Karl Rove) was convinced that the obsessive...
View ArticleOn the Tillerson Photo at the North Korea DMZ
Simply put, you don’t want to be photo bombed, or any other kind of bombed by North Korea. But that’s just a minimum requirement. In the world of international diplomacy, how you handle a photo op...
View ArticleNorth Korean Border Photos That Challenge Today’s War Hysteria
It is completely expectable to see North Korean soldiers aiming their rifles at photographers across the South Korean or Chinese border. And that’s exactly what we see several of the photographs in...
View ArticleAt Trump’s Invitation: Revisiting Pulitzer-Winning Philippine Drug War Photos
Daniel Berehulak’s photos and text of the drug war in the Philippines were published by The NY Times last December. At the time, they presented a grisly tour of the lethal campaign new Philippine...
View ArticleWorld Press Photo Winners: Mary F. Calvert and Military Sexual Assault
I wanted to focus on Mary Calvert’s photo project involving women raped or sexually assaulted while serving in the U.S. military. It won first place for long term projects at World Press. Of the...
View ArticleOur Post-Orlando Riffs on Mark Peterson’s NRA Convention Photos
A grip on the country. @NRA convention 3 weeks before #Orlando @petersonpixs @MSNBCPhoto https://t.co/aozgIKfwiq pic.twitter.com/MPHxrUqH4x — Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) June 14, 2016 Dress...
View ArticleTrump vs the Khans in 3 Pairs of Pictures
If you’re following the presidential campaign at all, you know Donald Trump has got himself into an insane fight with Khizr Khan and his wife Ghazala, the parent of a Muslim-American soldier killed in...
View ArticleMemory, Poetry and Politics: Thoughtful Views from Instagram on the 15th...
In recent anniversary years, we’ve been interested in new, or unpublished photos of 9/11 to help us remember, process and mourn. Last year, we published a unique photo of boys on bicycles at Ground...
View ArticleAleppo as the 21st Century Hiroshima?
We might want to think of Aleppo as the Hiroshima of the 21st century. This photograph brought the analogy to mind, and yet it would seem to argue against the comparison. The Hiroshima mushroom cloud...
View ArticleOn the Photos of the Russian Ambassador’s Assassination in Ankara: Our Tweet...
The chilling murder of the Russian Ambassador in Ankara yesterday was a photographic event, as much as it was a serious political event. But the overlap between online and social media, visual...
View ArticleBlack Soldiers as White House Props, Once Again
Though not as reviled as Trump, George W. Bush was also deeply unpopular with African-Americans. His brain, though (that’s what they called his strategist, Karl Rove) was convinced that the obsessive...
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