Not going back.
(Photo: @davidb383 , Jan 6, 2021)
Stains, defacement, and a resurgence of weirdness characterize photos and photo illustrations accompanying the campaign's final Trump articles and opinion pieces.
Is the steady bombardment of blasphemy coming home to roost? (Pix: Alex Brandon/AP; Ioulex for NYT; Doug Mills/NYT)
Try telling it to the Spanish. #OneMoreThingWeMissedLastWeek
Replying to @atrupar
Trump: "We don't have a global warming problem. They don't use that term anymore because as you can see, it's very cool out here today. Oh, they go crazy when I say-- it's not global warming because at certain points it starts to cool a bit, like now."
Closing arguments and open questions. "Harris vs. Trump: On Gender, Power, and the Future of America"
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Something vital got lost in Campaign 2024. #climatecrisis
You could not find a more fundamental image right now. readingthepictures.org/2022/…
Halo pic of the day: His royal highness.
Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump participates in a roundtable discussion with Latino community leaders in Doral, Florida. Photo by @ReutersBarria
Join us tomorrow evening in person or online! Other folks read the words, we read the pictures,
Join ICP + @ReadingthePix on Oct 22 for an analysis of the images defining the 2024 US election. With Dr. Karrin Anderson, Dr. Nicole Fleetwood, @thefletchinator, Michael Shaw, + Dr. @CaraFinnegan.
In-person + live-streamed: icp.org/events/the-reading-t….
Image @ErinSchaff, @nytimes
The Washington Post’s treatment of Trump at the Al Smith dinner
(washingtonpost.com/politics/… ) aligns perfectly with our recent Substack:
Shutter Shock: The Photos that Expose Trump’s Mind in Disarray
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(Photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
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Join ICP + @ReadingthePix on Oct 22 for an analysis of the images defining the 2024 US election. With Dr. Karrin Anderson, Dr. Nicole Fleetwood, @thefletchinator, Michael Shaw, + Dr. @CaraFinnegan.
In-person + live-streamed: icp.org/events/the-reading-t….
Image @ErinSchaff, @nytimes
How photographers, photo editors, and the rest of us can counter the sanewashing.
From: Shutter Shock: The Photos that Expose Trump’s Mind in Disarray
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From *Shutter Shock: The Photos that Expose Trump’s Mind in Disarray,* and how photographers, photo editors, and the rest of us can counter the sanewashing of Donald Trump.
(Photos - left: @EconClubNY right: #BrendanMcDermid @reuterspictures.)
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Shutter Shock: The Photos that Expose Trump’s Mind in Disarray
The media, barring some exceptions, sanitizes Trump's incoherence. Quotes help, but nothing exposes his confusion and chaos like visible reactions.
Our #ChattingThePictures video w analysis.
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I find this photo so heartbreaking. #cultureofnarcissism
(Via AP’s Pix of the Week. A young supporter at a Trump campaign event Oct. 1, 2024, in Waunakee, Wis. 📷Charlie Neibergall/AP.)
Join us in person or virtually on Oct 22nd for: "The Reading the Pictures Salon: Looking at Key Images from Campaign 2024" at ICP in New York.
We synthesize the odyssey down to a handful or so of select images illuminated by visual experts.
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Quite the contrast between this mid-August NYT photo illo and the Vance we saw in the VP debate. The composition depicts the personalities of the two vice presidential nominees at their respective conventions. #shapeshifter
📷Jamie Kelter Davis (left) and Erin Schaff. NYTimes.

































