byMichael Shaw
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Michael Shaw is the publisher of the popular progressive blog, BAGnewsNotes. BNN is the only blog dedicated 100% to visual politics and the analysis of news images, and also features original, politically-oriented images from America's pre-eminent photojournalists.
Top 10 Visual Politics/Photojournalism Blogs
After Photography
No one has a better theoretical or practical handle on the ethics, the technological changes and the shifting photojournalism marketplace than NYU's renown Fred Ritchin, a former editor of the New York Times Magazine.
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Brian Ulrich/Not If But When
As his tag line says, Brian Ulrich is a Chicago based artist, seeking to reveal social and contemporary illusions through photographic scrutiny.
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DVAFOTO
DVAFOTO keeps track of the photojournalism scene, but even better, it features the excellent photographs of its publishers, Matt Lutton (shooting from Serbia) and Scott Brauer (shooting from China).
LensCulture
Although its focus is on art photography as well as "concerned photography," Jim Casper's site is exceptionally well done.
Multimedia Muse
This site, run pseudonymously, thoughtfully scours the web for the best socially-conscious multimedia slideshows the MSM has to offer.
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New York Times Lens Blog
If you haven't seen it yet, the Lens Blog (part news photo site, part photo magazine) is a class act becoming an instant "go-to" site for the politically and visually-minded as soon as it launched a few months back.
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No Caption Needed
The book "No Caption Needed," looking at American culture by way of its most iconic photos, was a big hit last year, and the blog, by communications professors Robert Hariman and John Lucaites, continues the theme.
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Prison Photography
PP is not just fascinating, but its existence is a tremendous act of conscience when most of society would rather avoid the subject.
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Verve Photo
Showcases classic work from emerging photojournalists several times a week.
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We're Just Sayin
David Burnett is one of the legends of photojournalism, and his "blob" (published with his wife, Iris) is as much about family, politics and the day-to-day as it is about the photographic life. Sprinkled with David's pictures, it's as close as blogging gets to literature.
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