BAGnews named a top 20 photo blog!

Breaking news! BAGnewsNotes was just named a top 20 photo blog by LIFE.com. Of The BAG, it wrote

Examining the tiniest, seemingly mundane details of an image to extract its power, its meaning, and its message, the Notes blog (part of a larger site featuring original photography and live interactive discussions) fulfills its mission of “reading the pictures” by starting provocative conversations about how the media illustrate the biggest stories of the day.  …  BagNews Notes may not have all the answers, but in raising the questions, it offers a compelling new lens through which to view our politics, culture and, of course, pictures.

Congrats to the BAG and also to my BAGNews and Twitter friend Pete Brook at Prison Photography. Check out the other blogs on this list too. Several of them are new to me and I can’t wait to get lookin’.

11 months ago  1 note

Hey folks, this is what high-level, real-time, engaged online discussion of visual politics looks like! A screenshot of tonight’s BAGNewsSalon at Open-i. So much fun to moderate another Salon tonight, BAGNews’s 10th of these. And many more to come. What a great way to gather together folks from a variety of contexts to talk about the visual field.

Hey folks, this is what high-level, real-time, engaged online discussion of visual politics looks like! A screenshot of tonight’s BAGNewsSalon at Open-i. So much fun to moderate another Salon tonight, BAGNews’s 10th of these. And many more to come. What a great way to gather together folks from a variety of contexts to talk about the visual field.

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Next BAGNews Salon on June 5: The Fall of Bin Laden

The BagNewsSalon brings together the eyes and voices of the world’s leading photojournalists, visual academics and other highly-informed observers to analyze select edits of news photographs in a 90 minute online discussion format. I’ll be moderating what looks to be a lively discussion. Join us! If you can’t participate in real time, all salons are archived for later watching/listening.

1 year ago  4 notes

BAGnews named a top 20 photo blog!

Breaking news! BAGnewsNotes was just named a top 20 photo blog by LIFE.com. Of The BAG, it wrote

Examining the tiniest, seemingly mundane details of an image to extract its power, its meaning, and its message, the Notes blog (part of a larger site featuring original photography and live interactive discussions) fulfills its mission of “reading the pictures” by starting provocative conversations about how the media illustrate the biggest stories of the day.  …  BagNews Notes may not have all the answers, but in raising the questions, it offers a compelling new lens through which to view our politics, culture and, of course, pictures.

Congrats to the BAG and also to my BAGNews and Twitter friend Pete Brook at Prison Photography. Check out the other blogs on this list too. Several of them are new to me and I can’t wait to get lookin’.

Hey folks, this is what high-level, real-time, engaged online discussion of visual politics looks like! A screenshot of tonight’s BAGNewsSalon at Open-i. So much fun to moderate another Salon tonight, BAGNews’s 10th of these. And many more to come. What a great way to gather together folks from a variety of contexts to talk about the visual field.

Hey folks, this is what high-level, real-time, engaged online discussion of visual politics looks like! A screenshot of tonight’s BAGNewsSalon at Open-i. So much fun to moderate another Salon tonight, BAGNews’s 10th of these. And many more to come. What a great way to gather together folks from a variety of contexts to talk about the visual field.

Next BAGNews Salon on June 5: The Fall of Bin Laden

The BagNewsSalon brings together the eyes and voices of the world’s leading photojournalists, visual academics and other highly-informed observers to analyze select edits of news photographs in a 90 minute online discussion format. I’ll be moderating what looks to be a lively discussion. Join us! If you can’t participate in real time, all salons are archived for later watching/listening.
BAGnews named a top 20 photo blog!
Next BAGNews Salon on June 5: The Fall of Bin Laden

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Visual Politics: All things visual in public life. Presented by Cara Finnegan, scholar, teacher, rhetoric geek. Lover of photography, art, print culture, politics, and troublemakers.

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