(Carlos Barria/Reuters @ The Big Picture, boston.com)
BAGnewsNotes 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 American political and media culture. One of the more ambitious projects is BAGnewsSalon, “an on-line, real-time discussion of selected images between invited guests in a live chat room on the BAGnewsNotes blog.” Later today, “counter-programming the Superbowl” (21:00 CET), the Bag is hosting its seventh Salon installment. Past Salon discussions are archived here.
Haiti Aftermath: A Look Back at the First Week
Sunday, February 7, 2010
3:00-4:30 pm EST
This BAGnewsSalon will examine a small group of images from the week following the devastating Haitian earthquake. From these pictures, we hope to consider various issues, including:
- the role, boundaries and “weighting” of the graphic and sensational
- how much the pictures presented a representative, as opposed to a generic or stereotyped view of the Haitian people
- whether the pictures might have overly skewed toward human suffering and physical devastation at the expense of, say, the general scale of the disaster, the response of Haitian authorities, the impact on different Haitian social classes, the unfolding of the relief effort, etc.
Those scheduled to participate include: professors Loret Steinberg (R.I.T.), Nathan Stormer (U. of Maine) and Fred Ritchen (NYU); photographer and BAGnewsNotes contributor Alan Chin; photographers Erin Siegel, Aric Mayer, Tim Fadek (Polaris), Chris Hondros (Getty) and Willie Davis (Veras); host Michael Shaw (publisher – BAGnewsNotes); BAGnewsSALON producer Neil Harris; and moderator Cara Finnegan (U. of Illinois).
Tim, Chris and Willie were all shooting in Haiti that week.
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