I saw Blair’s “re-introduction” last night on a TV2 spot last night. But I think Michael Shaw nails it with these Getty Europe shots (see the others at the link): In defining different types of political news photos, these fall into the category I call “the re-introduction.” As if calling this out, the pictures from [...]
Tagged BNN, uncannyOn behalf of America Adrift I thought I’d shamelessly promote EyeCorner Press’s (Camelia Elias) latest title, Jagged Timeline by Robert Gibbons with Danish translations by Bent Sørensen. This bilingual volume introduces the work of American prose poet Robert Gibbons to a transatlantic audience. The volume shows how multifaceted a poet he is, effortlessly exploring political, [...]
Tagged Bent Sorensen, Robert GibbonsNext semester I will be teaching my two obligatory seminars as required under my Ph.D. employment contract. I wanted to get these courses “out of the way” early on so that I won’t have work obligations hanging over me during my last year when I should be concentrating on my dissertation. Furthermore, it was recommended [...]
Tagged American Studies, Chicano studies, Obama, teaching, Visual CultureCaption & Inscription In the dark, after the violence, the dream strayed from that Hollywood nonsense, & lent a hand to the project, presenting an array of sources, appropriating certain tracts of texts & imagery. An uncommon phenomenon, although not unknown to writers, artists, it led the way here: in 1936 Walter Benjamin hears jackboots [...]
Tagged Robert GibbonsHaven’t you heard? Major, transformative health care insurance legislation, hailed as a victory for consumers, oh boy![1] has passed and Vice President Joe Biden was “gotcha’d by the news media. Well, what is the big f’ing deal? Danish TV2 thankfully picked up this critical story on their morning news program today. You know, speaking with [...]
Tagged health care, Obama, snarkThe other day during a much needed lunch break a few colleagues and I got into a conversation about social drug use. What else would a group of new Ph.D. students be talking about in the dark corridors of the academy! I think I started us on our downward spiral as I was complaining that [...]
Tagged drugsIn the late 1960s, Texas poster art, long an important mainstay of the state’s printmaking tradition, entered a fertile and innovative period in Austin. Drawing inspiration from the counter culture and psychedelic music movements, a new generation of Texas graphic arts designers created one-of-a-kind posters. Today their works are considered some of the finest artifacts [...]
Tagged Poster Art, Texas@ Sophie’s
Tagged Iconography, TransgressionBAGnewsNotes is simply one of the most interesting communities in the online progressive landscape. Michael Shaw, a clinical psychologist by trade, not only provides daily, intelligent deconstructions of US political visual culture but has also built a dynamic community where citizens, activists, academics, political analysts and photographers all interact in creating compelling multivocal critiques of [...]
Tagged Photography, Visual Analysis