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Bag’s Take-Away:
Miniature golf. Island chain (take your pick). Old Eastern airlines logo. Post-Modern Christmas. Calling Matisse!
via: Time Lightbox/Pictures of the Week
(photo: Guido Bergman—Action Press / ZUMA Press caption: March 14, 2012. German chancellor Angela Merkel welcomes the Tunisian prime minister Hamadi Jebali with military honors in Berlin. Read more: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/03/16/pictures-of-the-week-march-9-march-16/#ixzz1pPyJm5mj)
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Topping LIFE.com’s 2011 Best Photo Blogs — also follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
Bag’s Take-Away:
We’ve seen plenty of body paint and human flags, but this takes “the wearing” of the Arab revolution to the whole next level.
via: TIME Lightbox - Pictures of the Week: February 24 – March 2
(photo: Yasser Al-Zayyat—AFP / Getty Images caption: Feb. 24, 2012. A Kuwaiti woman wears a contact lens in the colors of her national flag in Kuwait City on the eve of the Gulf state’s 51st Independence Day, and ahead of the 21st anniversary of the end of the Gulf War with the liberation of Kuwait from Iraqi occupation.
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Topping LIFE.com’s 2011 Best Photo Blogs — follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
So the question for our panel is, what makes Santorum’s sweater such a icon?
We’ll be looking into Tunbjork’s wonderful pic with an expert cast of photographers, visual academics and political analysts as part of Sunday’s BagNews “Campaign Mania” Salon. It’s 9 photos in 90 minutes. Hope you can join us!
Date: Sunday, January 29th
Time: 10 am PST/ 1 pm EST / 6pm London (running for 90 minutes)
Location: Online Webinar - http://bit.ly/BagNewsSalon (Best to sign in 10 minutes early. Not accessible on Chrome Browser)
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Host: Michael Shaw, Publisher, BagNewsNotes
Moderator: Cara Finnegan, Professor of Communication – U. of Illinois, Co-editor: Visual Rhetoric: a reader in communication and American culture
Discussants: Nina Berman – Documentary Photographer, NOOR, and Contributor – BagNewsOriginals
Janis Edwards – Associate Professor, Communication Studies, University of Alabama
Justin Elliott – Reporter, Salon.com
Brendan Hoffman – Freelance Photographer; Co-Founder of Prime Collective; covering Campaign ‘12 for TIME and NY Times
Chip Somodevilla – Staff Photographer, Getty Images
Loret Steinberg – Professor of Photojournalism and Documentary Photography/R.I.T.
Salons are co-edited and produced by Ida C. Benedetto
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The BagNewsSalon, a program of BagNewsNotes, brings together the world’s leading photojournalists, visual academics and other informed observers to understanding how the visual media frames the key social and political events of the day.
(Photo: Lars Tunbjork for TIME. Caption: A Stranger in a Strange Land: The Iowa Caucus)
