W's Presidency in Pictures
Errol Morris has a great new photo article at the New York Times. He asked photo editors from the AP, AFP, and Reuters news agencies to choose ten or so photos that in their view best characterize Bush's presidency. Some of them you will have seen, some probably not.
The photos are worth looking at, especially the last three photos of Bush. And the text is no less interesting, giving the backstory from photographers, and comparing and contrasting the way different news agencies handle photos.
As an amateur photographer I've read Morris's previous essays and found them to be quite interesting. He often analyzes the relationship between photographs and reality; they say that photos don't lie, but what do they know!
The photos are worth looking at, especially the last three photos of Bush. And the text is no less interesting, giving the backstory from photographers, and comparing and contrasting the way different news agencies handle photos.
As an amateur photographer I've read Morris's previous essays and found them to be quite interesting. He often analyzes the relationship between photographs and reality; they say that photos don't lie, but what do they know!
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Loved this Code, thanks for the link!
The lengths some turkeys will go to to get a pardon. Shameful.
January 26, 2009 5:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
The umbrella, the plane over NO, and the chinese doors.
Thats about it.
PS I really hate that guy!!!!
January 26, 2009 5:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
The umbrella pic is great - desperately trying to hold on even after everything's gone horribly wrong.
January 26, 2009 6:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes Code, and he has that silly empty look like Alfred E. Newman. WHAT, ME WORRY?
Really a fine symbol for eight years of evil and incompetency at the same time.
January 26, 2009 6:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks, this was a very interesting article. The accompanying still photos make a striking historical record.
January 26, 2009 6:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Code, this was entirely too interesting.
Um, thanks!
=D
January 26, 2009 8:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
You're welcome :)
January 26, 2009 8:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for sharing. Great article! I have learned to be careful before I start reading any article by Errol Morris in the NY Times, I usually find myself spending hours and hours reading them.
January 26, 2009 11:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
I know that feeling!
January 27, 2009 7:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
Code, long time! Thanks for the link. I love the one with Putin in the Volga. And the bathroom break note. I'd add this one too, but really it's the video of that that's hilarious.
Don't everybody jump on me, but even though I hate George Bush the (former) President, I think George Bush the regular guy is pretty funny. Sort of like a court jester.
January 27, 2009 8:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
At first I thought you'd mistaken the name of the car for the name of the river, 99. Disappointed that you're right.
Would have much preferred to see Bush & Putin in the Volga River.
January 27, 2009 10:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
LOL. Hadn't even made the connection. ;)
January 27, 2009 10:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
If only he's just been court jester. That would have kept him just within his dad's White House.
January 27, 2009 10:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
I lament his presidency also. But the people deserving the blame are the ones in my party who nominated Al Gore and John F Kerry to run against him. I'm from a conservative area and know no one who voted for Bush jr. who actually wanted him to lead the country.
I think maybe we're doing something wrong. Instead of the circuses of campaigns for popularly elected presidents, maybe the original system whereby the house elected the president wasn't such a bad idea. At least the president would be known personally by the electorate vetting him.
January 27, 2009 9:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hmmmm...at first glance I'm against it. House reps are notoriously easy to bribe, as a group are pretty much our least popular politicians on both sides of the aisle, many aren't very bright, and they'd most likely only choose among themselves.
January 27, 2009 10:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
Al Gore only made one fatal error in his campaign: distancing himself from Clinton. That's what cost him.
Of course, with the way that Florida came out, we will never know who actually won that year... just the same way that we will never know who actually won the MN Senate seat.
Gore was not a weak candidate, that's revisionist.
January 27, 2009 2:33 PM | Reply | Permalink