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This week we feature a CBS report that celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the fall of Berlin Wall by drawing upon the work and reminiscences of photojournalist (and longtime friend of NCN) Peter Turnley. Click on the image to view the video, or click here to read [...]
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Number of comments: 3 This photograph may be one of the more ordinary images in recent photojournalism, and all the more eloquent for that.
The caption stated that “A labourer rests near his makeshift tent home in a park” in Charlotte, North Carolina. Attentive readers will have noticed the British spelling [...]
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November 11th was originally proclaimed Armistice Day by President Wilson in 1919 as a day for remembering those who sacrificed their lives in the first ?war to end all wars.? In 1926 the U.S. Congress passed a joint resolution in which November 11th was [...]
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Credit: All Hat No Cattle
“Sight Gags” is our weekly nod to the ironic and carnivalesque in a vibrant democratic public culture. We typically will not comment beyond offering an identifying label, leaving the images to “speak” for themselves as much as possible. Of [...]
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Number of comments: 1 Like Hope and Crosby, your NCN guys are on the road this week. Unfortunately its nothing as exotic as Bali, or Rio, or Zanzibar … but who knows what mayhem we will create. We’ll be back next Sunday with a new sight gag as we get ready to wind down [...]
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Credit: Jim Morin, Miami Herald
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Number of comments: 4 The World Photography Organization manages the Sony World Photography Awards, which offer parallel competitions for professional photographers and for amateurs. Entry in competitions is free. This year’s deadline for submission is January 4, 2010. Information is available at the website, along with images of last year’s winners and amateur [...]
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Number of comments: 3 The persistence of torture is enough to condemn modern civilization, the human race, and any conception of a just God. Any thinking, feeling human being should be ashamed at what is done, and appalled at the perversion and obscenity and stupidity that it requires, and outraged at those who fabricate [...]
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Number of comments: 2 The eye can see a great deal, but it rarely sees itself, and never directly. Perhaps that is one reason why photographs such as this one remain somewhat scandalous.
This close-up of an eye exam in Indonesia exposes the eye as an object of sight. We see a [...]
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Credit: John Sherrfius
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Reuters and MediaStorm have collaborated on a multimedia history of the current financial crisis. The online project is entitled Times of Crisis. In their own words, “The project has two parts ? a short web documentary and an in-depth visual timeline. The latter contains hundreds of entries woven together [...]
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Our language is fettered with visual clichés. ?Seeing is believing,? but also ?don?t believe everything you see.? And don?t forget that ?a picture is worth a thousand words.? Of course, our very favorite visual cliché here at NCN is ?No caption needed.? As the title of both our book [...]
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In Western culture and particularly in its visual arts there are strong conventions that place peasant life close to nature, in a realm of slow time that is largely impervious to historical change, and limited to the core functions of human subsistence. Obviously, none of this precludes being the subject [...]
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Credit: Adam Zyglis, Buffalo News
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The website announces “Life on Earth through the eyes of its inhabitants,” but it may be both less and more than that. The Week of Life documentary project invites anyone anywhere to take nine photographs a day for seven days and then post them at this web site. Like [...]
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Kids have been in the news a good bit lately. A few months back you may recall the big flap when President Obama delivered a speech before school aged children and was accused of attempting to indoctrinate them with his ?socialist ideology?: stay in school and work hard. Children, [...]
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Many of the more popular spectator sports involve athletes excelling at games the fans play not as well. Only a very few can go pro, but lots of people can shoot a basket, throw a football, catch a baseball, defend the goal, or sink a putt. And then there is [...]
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Number of comments: 1 By guest correspondent Elisabeth Ross
A little while ago, the New York Times ran a story about the so-called ?family dinner? predicament, which in this latest commentary was anchored by yet another study suggesting an association between frequency of family dinners and adolescent substance abuse rates.
The photograph accompanying the article [...]
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Number of comments: 1 “Falling through the cracks” is a common expression for something being neglected, forgotten, or otherwise subject to errors of omission in organizational life. The same can happen in journalism. We might even consider how a “news crack” develops: a series of events in several areas of interest will lead to [...]
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Number of comments: 1 The full title of this post could be Face/Paint Kitsch/Art Look/See Now/Then Pleasure/Pain Again. If that isn’t perfectly clear, I’m not surprised. The story starts here:
The photograph is of a soccer fan from Ghana painted for a World Cup qualifying match. We see the bright colors and [...]
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Credit: Oldamericancentury.org
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Number of comments: 1 This week we welcome Stefano Boscutti to NCN. Stefano articulates photojournalism with the genre of the newsreel to create what he calls “a cinema of possibility” designed to animate our “moral imagination.” To see him discuss his work you can click on this interview. Otherwise, click here or [...]
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It is generally referred to as the ?1,000 Yard Stare,? the blank, ?no one is home? expression on the face of a combat veteran who has simply seen and done too much. No longer capable of adapting to the stresses and utter insanity of a troglodyte world of violence, [...]
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Number of comments: 5 Like the recent Olympics, the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China has supplied spectacular images of brightly colored, state-sponsored performance art on a grand scale. Many of the photographs are of military troops marching on parade.
Something seems to be lost in translation, [...]
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The folks at Wired Magazine have reported on a team from Kansas State that has generated a national map of the seven deadly sins by plotting per-capita status on things like theft (envy) and STDs (lust). They note that Christian clergy, no doubt concerned about the way in [...]
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London seems to be the place to be right now. If you are especially adventurous you might be interested in Shoot Spitalfields Photography Treasure Hunt on October 11, 2009. And for the rest there is Photomonth ‘09 running from October 1-through Novemebr 30th.
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WTO, G8, G20, the Democratic National Convention, the Republican National Convention, these and other events provide ritual occasions for grassroots protests against the establishment. And we all know the script. Kids and cops, colorful street theater and uniformed violence, sensational coverage and claims of de facto censorship. Last week it [...]
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Number of comments: 1 Newspapers are not designed to be pondered at great length, but once in a while you can be stopped in your tracks, stunned, made to sit down slowly and simply stare. This photograph was one of those moments.
We may be in a hospital or a morgue or [...]
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Credit: Matson
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Number of comments: 4 By Guest Correspondent Aric Mayer
On page 194 of Glamour Magazine?s September issue, in a three-inch by three-inch photograph by Walter Chin, 20 year-old model Lizzi Miller sits on an apple crate in a thong.
She leans forward slightly, her arm covering her breasts, a confident and radiant [...]
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Number of comments: 1 Yesterday the MacArthur Foundation announced the selection of the MacArthur Fellows for 2009. The recipients of this so-called “genius award” included Lynsey Addario, a photojournalist based in Istanbul, Turkey. Addario’s portfolio includes work from the Middle East, Africa, India, and elsewhere. I won’t pretend to summarize her work, but [...]
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I admittedly know very little about the ultra chic world of haute couture, but I nevertheless was struck dumb by a recent story in the NYT which reported that the high fashion magazine W had published a 28 page photo spread animated by the theme of ?homeless chic.? [...]
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Credit: All Hat No Cattle
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Number of comments: 2 It’s Fashion Week in New York, and more people than would admit to it are looking to see what bizarre costumes are being displayed this year. Most will never be seen again, of course, and good thing, too. And few of us would assume that the staged excess of runway [...]
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Number of comments: 7 Amidst the many images of hostility, conflict, and destruction that come out of the occupied territories in Palestine, this one is truly shocking.
The photo appeared on page A8 of the morning edition of the New York Times with this caption: “Tinderbox In Hebron, a Jewish settler threw [...]
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In contrast to the many images of right wing demonstrators disrupting town hall meetings, this photograph of elderly citizens listening to a discussion of national health care appears to be a model of thoughtful deliberation.
They are old, yes, but not incapacitated. Indeed, this is just what an [...]
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Credit: Unanonymous (Linked from SchizoAmerica)
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An exhibition by photographer Tim Davis opened yesterday at the Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, Fifth Avenue at 57th St., New York.
It’s titled The New Antiquity.
The exhibition runs through October 24th. You also can see the set of slides at his website, here.
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Number of comments: 3 We have written here at NCN on numerous occasions about Joe Rosenthal’s iconic “Raising Old Glory on Mt. Suribachi” (here, here, here, here, here, and here). While there is much to be said about the photograph our basic approach has been to call attention [...]
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Credit: Bureau of Labor Statistics, September 2009
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Credit: Branch, San Antonio Express
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If you think Wikipedia is a good idea, you might also want to look at the Encyclopedia of Life. This is an online collaborative project to document all living species. If short on taxonomic skills, you might still be able to enjoy and perhaps contribute to the [...]
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When raging wildfires threaten a city, the imagery quickly acquires an allegorical tone. Apocalyptic horizons suggest that much larger catastrophe looms, and civilization itself can seem exposed, unprepared, unprotected. At that moment, the public art of photojournalism becomes capable of both revealing vulnerability and meeting the need for reassurance. [...]
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Bearing the pall is an honored ritual in western funerary traditions according to which typically the most intimate friends and family members of the departed carry the casket that cloaks and contains the bodily remains. Until recently I thought of this as a rather instrumental ritual, [...]
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Credit: Aislin, The Montreal Gazette, 8/29/09
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Morgan Hager has created a show called The People Project.
“There are a myriad of challenges facing the human race today. The People Project attempts to define the challenges facing humanity as a whole by examining the views of the individual. Through compelling images and the thought [...]
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Posted: August 28, 2009, 5:00am EDT by Hariman
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Photography (and neither painting nor film) is the nearest artistic source of contemporary conceptions of the natural sublime. And with good reason:
This image just about stops my heart. It is majestic and serene, austere and wild, menacing and yet perfectly balanced. And far more than its informative [...]
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Posted: August 26, 2009, 5:00am EDT by Hariman
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Number of comments: 1 You might wonder what you are seeing in this photograph:
Look closely, and you will see a clump of trees. Some might also recognize the even rows of high-tech, monocultural agriculture stretched across the plain. But I’ve given too much away, as you also could have seen a [...]
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Posted: August 24, 2009, 5:00am EDT by Hariman
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Credit: R. J. Matson/St. Louis Post Dispatch
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Today we are pleased to welcome Alejandro Martinez to our Photographer’s Showcase at NCN. Alejandro is an American- educated Mexican photographer. He holds a B.A. in Studio Art and a minor in Japanese from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. He spent the past year in China, photographing and studying Chinese. [...]
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Posted: August 21, 2009, 5:00am EDT by Hariman
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One of the attractions of the beach is that so many distinctions seem to melt away into the broad expanses of sun, sea, and sand. Nature offers the same three elements to whoever is there, and there seems to be room enough for everyone, and–for the day, anyway–what more does [...]
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Posted: August 19, 2009, 5:00am EDT by Hariman
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The national health care debate has received an enormous amount of attention over the past few weeks, but for the most part the focus has had less to do with the state of health care and more with the incivility of protestors. As President Obama put it, ?TV loves a [...]
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Number of comments: 1 
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Credit: Oro/Verde
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Number of comments: 1 By guest correspondent Troy Cooper
One of the consistent visual conventions of the current economic recession is the photograph of a store closing. Any number of major retailers have announced their intent to shut the doors at many or all locations, and the conventional image often accompanies such news. Record stores, [...]
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Posted: August 14, 2009, 5:00am EDT by Hariman
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Number of comments: 1 Photographs can show us not only what was in front of the camera but also ways of seeing. Two recent photos from Afghanistan each present a scene and at least two different perspectives on what is seen. Although not representative of all the images being taken there, they can illustrate [...]
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Posted: August 12, 2009, 5:00am EDT by Hariman
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Number of comments: 2 The recession has been bad for just about everyone, but it has been much worse for some than others. And surely among those hurt the hardest have been the homeless who have become both the frequent target of hate crimes as well as the aim of criminalization laws [...]
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Credit: Benson/Arizona Republic
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By guest correspondent Daniel Kim
Peer into the small, circular opening of just about any camera?s viewfinder, and you?ll see the familiar, rectangular frame through which the photographer composes her image. There exists, however, within contemporary point-and-shoot cameras, another frame that is often relegated to the background?quite literally. [...]
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Posted: August 07, 2009, 5:00am EDT by Hariman
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The news on a slow news day is not like slow food–it’s often more like junk food. But there is better and worse in junk food, and the same holds for what the press serves up during the summer doldrums. Time Magazine recently put up a slide show about [...]
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Posted: August 05, 2009, 5:00am EDT by Hariman
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My first impulse on seeing various iterations of this photograph?this is the official White House version?was to take a pass on commenting on it. After all, I surmised, it is such an obviously orchestrated photo-op that there is very little that needs saying?a point seemingly [...]
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Credit: Anonymous Post Card
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Number of comments: 1 Feeling Photography
University of Toronto
October 16-17, 2009
“Feeling Photography” is an international, interdisciplinary conference that will bring together scholars working in a range of interpretive and theoretical approaches to interrogate the relationship between the affect, emotion, and/or feeling and the photograph. The conference will be held at the University of [...]
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Posted: July 31, 2009, 4:00am EDT by Lucaites
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A total eclipse of the sun is a rare phenomenon. In ancient times it was understood to be an omen or portent. Herodutus reports that an eclipse halted a battle between the Lydians and Medes, noting that ?when they saw the onset of night during [...]
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Posted: July 29, 2009, 4:00am EDT by Lucaites
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Whether traveling or just hanging out at the beach or barbeque, summer is thought of as a time to actually look at the world. You might be watching an ant working at a giant crumb, or boats bobbing in the harbor, or accidental patterns in the crowd at the ball [...]
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Posted: July 27, 2009, 5:00am EDT by Hariman
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Credit: Cagle
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Posted: July 26, 2009, 4:00am EDT by Lucaites
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Number of comments: 1 By guest correspondent Elisabeth Ross.
Earlier this week, the New York Times reported the death of Walter Cronkite with the headline, ?Trusted Voice of TV News.? That sentiment was echoed in obituaries across the country, many of which also suggested that there had been a decline in the character and credibility [...]
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Posted: July 24, 2009, 5:00am EDT by Hariman
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Number of comments: 2 
The 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing has been the occasion for commemorating a moment of national triumph?by some accounts ?the? moment of national triumph in the post-World War II era?with slideshows of ?remembrance? at many of the major media outlet websites (e.g., [...]
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Posted: July 22, 2009, 4:00am EDT by Lucaites
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Number of comments: 1 A great deal of heat was generated over the Bush administration policy of censoring photographs of military coffins being returned to the US from Iraq and Afghanistan. (Actually, the policy had been in effect since the first Bush administration in 1991, but it was renewed by W. The policy was [...]
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Posted: July 20, 2009, 5:00am EDT by Hariman
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Number of comments: 2 
Photo Credit: Cam Cardow, Ottawa Citizen
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Posted: July 19, 2009, 4:00am EDT by Lucaites
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Monroe Gallery of Photography, 112 Don Gaspar, Sante Fe, NM, is pleased to announce “A Thousand Words: Masters of Photojournalism”, an exhibition of more than 60 great photographs from the field of photojournalism. The exhibition opens with a public reception on July 3 from 5 - 7 [...]
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Posted: July 17, 2009, 5:00am EDT by Hariman
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Number of comments: 6 Debates about the moral value of photography have to deal with poverty. One might think that there is little to discuss: poverty can be distressingly visible, and photographs have been a principle means for motivating efforts to help those in need. From the classic photographs by Jacob Riis and [...]
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Posted: July 15, 2009, 5:00am EDT by Hariman
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Number of comments: 1 The Statue of Liberty is open for business again for the first time since 9/11. As a result, New York photographers have had to deal with the task of finding a distinctive angle on one the the most familiar images in public art. This one shows the lengths we all [...]
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Posted: July 13, 2009, 5:00am EDT by Hariman
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Photo Credit: Alberto Pizzolia/AFP/Getty Images
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Posted: July 12, 2009, 3:00am EDT by Lucaites
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Number of comments: 1 By guest correspondent Nathan Atkinson
When catastrophe strikes we can always count on photographers to offer up images of citizens helping their fellows in times of need. These images usually focus on the drama of rescue amid dangerous circumstances. Firefighters work to save property and lives, police officers maintain order on [...]
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Posted: July 10, 2009, 5:00am EDT by Hariman
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Number of comments: 2 
The ?Summer Surge? has begun in Afghanistan, though more with a whimper than a bang if we measure it in terms of media attention. The death toll creeps higher each day, but one has to search hard to find any mention of it. The [...]
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Posted: July 08, 2009, 3:00am EDT by Lucaites
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Number of comments: 6 Recently USA Today ran a photo contest to answer the question, “Can a single image capture the essence of America?” Of the 1,035 entries, this one was judged to be the best:
It’s a fine image, and one can easily concur with the judges’ statement that it [...]
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Posted: July 06, 2009, 5:00am EDT by Hariman
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Number of comments: 6 Today nocaptionneeded.com celebrates its second birthday.
There is a lot to be said for the Web, but virtual parties are not likely to be high on the list. Even so, we’re still here and somewhat amazed about that, and still growing and somewhat amazed about that.
As we [...]
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Posted: June 22, 2009, 5:00am EDT by Hariman
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Number of comments: 1 
Photo Credit: Matson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Posted: June 21, 2009, 5:06pm EDT by Lucaites
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The riveting images and real time coverage of the events in Iran this week are about as good as it gets for those who celebrate public demonstrations on behalf of progressive social and political change. The power of the people is there to see, as are the democratizing effects of [...]
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Posted: June 19, 2009, 5:00am EDT by Hariman
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Number of comments: 7 Commentators on photography frequently claim that the image is a counterfeit of reality. Beware the image, we’re told, as it is not the real thing. But it you look at what people do with images, you can see far more than people being mislead. What I find particularly notable is [...]
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Posted: June 17, 2009, 5:00am EDT by Hariman
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Number of comments: 6 The new media have been giddy with their up-to-the-minute coverage of the events in Iran this weekend. Direct comparison, compliments of Twitter, with CNN’s poor showing made the contrast all too obvious: The new media reports coming out of Tehran were equivalent to CNN coverage of the 1991 bombing [...]
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Posted: June 15, 2009, 5:00am EDT by Hariman
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Credit: Knickerbocker
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Posted: June 14, 2009, 4:00am EDT by Lucaites
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Number of comments: 10 One of the questions one might raise about coverage of the Middle East is how much to feature women under the veil. Despite the range of positions in the region about body covering, the tendency in the US is to feature burqas (of whatever kind or name) when emphasizing deficits [...]
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Posted: June 12, 2009, 5:00am EDT by Hariman
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Can you name the location of this photograph? If you need a hint click on the image.
Even those who actually recognize the scene probably misidentify it. Most westerners would be inclined to say that it is Tiananmen Square, though it is actually Changan Avenue, which is [...]
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Posted: June 10, 2009, 12:12am EDT by Lucaites
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Number of comments: 3 The coverage of Obama’s speech in Cairo continued this weekend with a slide show at the New York Times. The slides essentially were all the same, with each showing Obama’s televised image in one locale or another. The set of slides included photographs from India, Africa, and LA, but [...]
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Posted: June 08, 2009, 5:00am EDT by Hariman
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Credit: Somethingawful.com
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Posted: June 07, 2009, 4:00am EDT by Lucaites
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Pop Quiz: One woman or two?
Or was it a trick question? There obviously are two women there, even if one is a copy of the other. And if you look closely, you can see small differences in hair or the accessories in the background or whatever [...]
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Posted: June 05, 2009, 5:00am EDT by Hariman
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Number of comments: 1 Sometime during the day I picked up the news that an Air France airliner had disappeared in the mid-Atlantic. Dropping from 35,0000 feet, hope for a heroic water landing seemed remote. As I checked periodically, the lack of news became increasingly ominous. Along with that, another form of unease began [...]
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Posted: June 03, 2009, 5:00am EDT by Hariman
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Number of comments: 1 
?Liberal democracy? is a political paradox animated by the competing and often contradictory demands and interests of individual and collective living. The liberal-democratic conundrum manifests itself in numerous civic contexts, but none more clearly than in those situations in late modern society that underscore the tension [...]
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Posted: June 01, 2009, 4:00am EDT by Lucaites
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Photo Credit: Mark Ralston/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
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Posted: May 31, 2009, 7:05am EDT by Lucaites
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Number of comments: 1 Symposium: The Aesthetics of Catastrophe
Northwestern University
Friday, June 5, 2009
Annie May Swift Hall Auditorium
This symposium addresses questions of visual representation and public advocacy as they are evident in contemporary economic, environmental, and political disasters. Events such as floods, fires, terrorism, and genocide generate heightened media [...]
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Posted: May 29, 2009, 5:00am EDT by Hariman
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Number of comments: 1 To the untrained eye, including many of us who grew up seeing annual photos of Soviet military hardware being paraded in Red Square, this could be an image from the 1960s.
The planes are flying over Red Square for the annual photo-op that the Soviet–oops, Russian–government provides [...]
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Posted: May 27, 2009, 5:00am EDT by Hariman
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Posted: May 25, 2009, 4:00am EDT by Lucaites
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Number of comments: 2 
Photo Credit: Mark J. Terrill/AP
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Posted: May 24, 2009, 7:24am EDT by Lucaites
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Number of comments: 5 By guest correspondent David Campbell
Embedding photojournalists with combat units was one of the military?s greatest victories in the Iraq war. By narrowing the focus in time and space to the unit they were with, the images produced put brave soldiers front and center, with both context and victims out [...]
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Posted: May 22, 2009, 5:00am EDT by Hariman
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Number of comments: 2 
The scene above has a familiar aura about it: It could be a photograph of a drug bust somewhere in Mexico or Colombia, or it could be a rescue scene from an episode of a TV show like 24 or The Unit. But it is none [...]
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Posted: May 20, 2009, 1:37am EDT by Lucaites
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Number of comments: 1 Yesterday GQ broke the latest story about the alternate universe known as the Bush administration. It seems that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld didn’t think that getting the latest intelligence on the war in Iraq was good enough for the president. So the Secretary tricked up the daily top-secret reports [...]
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Posted: May 18, 2009, 5:00am EDT by Hariman
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Photo Credit: www.crooksandliers.com
The “Sight Gag? is our weekly nod to the ironic and carnivalesque in a vibrant democratic public culture. We typically will not comment beyond offering an identifying label, leaving the images to ?speak? for themselves as much as possible. Of course, we invite you [...]
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Posted: May 17, 2009, 4:00am EDT by Lucaites
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Number of comments: 1 Photographer Stuart Pilkington brings word of The 50 States Project, a special archive that 50 photographers are building this year. Each of the participants, one from each of the fifty states in the US, will produce six images during the year to represent some aspect of their state. [...]
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Posted: May 15, 2009, 5:00am EDT by Hariman
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