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I was terribly wrong. We are.

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Not going back.

(Photo: @davidb383 , Jan 6, 2021)

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Not going back.

(Photo: @davidb383 , Jan 6, 2021)

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Stains, defacement, and a resurgence of weirdness characterize photos and photo illustrations accompanying the campaign's final Trump articles and opinion pieces.

Is the steady bombardment of blasphemy coming home to roost? (Pix: Alex Brandon/AP; Ioulex for NYT; Doug Mills/NYT)

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Try telling it to the Spanish. #OneMoreThingWeMissedLastWeek

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Trump: "We don't have a global warming problem. They don't use that term anymore because as you can see, it's very cool out here today. Oh, they go crazy when I say-- it's not global warming because at certain points it starts to cool a bit, like now."

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Closing arguments and open questions. "Harris vs. Trump: On Gender, Power, and the Future of America"
https://t.co/xwKnZox7jp

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Something vital got lost in Campaign 2024. #climatecrisis

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You could not find a more fundamental image right now. https://t.co/Bs2XYCK5Jd

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Halo pic of the day: His royal highness.

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Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump participates in a roundtable discussion with Latino community leaders in Doral, Florida. Photo by @ReutersBarria

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Join us tomorrow evening in person or online! Other folks read the words, we read the pictures,

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Join ICP + @ReadingthePix on Oct 22 for an analysis of the images defining the 2024 US election. With Dr. Karrin Anderson, Dr. Nicole Fleetwood, @thefletchinator, Michael Shaw, + Dr. @CaraFinnegan.

In-person + live-streamed: https://t.co/uRBtrITKoL.

Image @ErinSchaff, @nytimes

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Can’t say as much for the mostly normalizing pic the NYT used. (📷 Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)

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The Washington Post’s treatment of Trump at the Al Smith dinner
(https://t.co/vNNsJfV3Jw ) aligns perfectly with our recent Substack:

Shutter Shock: The Photos that Expose Trump’s Mind in Disarray

https://t.co/R78F4rDuZ7

(Photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

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Join ICP + @ReadingthePix on Oct 22 for an analysis of the images defining the 2024 US election. With Dr. Karrin Anderson, Dr. Nicole Fleetwood, @thefletchinator, Michael Shaw, + Dr. @CaraFinnegan.

In-person + live-streamed: https://t.co/uRBtrITKoL.

Image @ErinSchaff, @nytimes

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How photographers, photo editors, and the rest of us can counter the sanewashing.

From: Shutter Shock: The Photos that Expose Trump’s Mind in Disarray
https://t.co/R78F4rDuZ7

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#IndigenousPeoplesDay2024 📷@steffikeith

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From *Shutter Shock: The Photos that Expose Trump’s Mind in Disarray,* and how photographers, photo editors, and the rest of us can counter the sanewashing of Donald Trump.

(Photos - left: @EconClubNY right: #BrendanMcDermid @reuterspictures.)

https://t.co/R78F4rDuZ7

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Shutter Shock: The Photos that Expose Trump’s Mind in Disarray

The media, barring some exceptions, sanitizes Trump's incoherence. Quotes help, but nothing exposes his confusion and chaos like visible reactions.

Our #ChattingThePictures video w analysis.

https://t.co/R78F4rDuZ7

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I find this photo so heartbreaking. #cultureofnarcissism

(Via AP’s Pix of the Week. A young supporter at a Trump campaign event Oct. 1, 2024, in Waunakee, Wis. 📷Charlie Neibergall/AP.)

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Join us in person or virtually on Oct 22nd for: "The Reading the Pictures Salon: Looking at Key Images from Campaign 2024" at ICP in New York.

We synthesize the odyssey down to a handful or so of select images illuminated by visual experts.

https://t.co/KTHy2jNtxc

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Quite the contrast between this mid-August NYT photo illo and the Vance we saw in the VP debate. The composition depicts the personalities of the two vice presidential nominees at their respective conventions. #shapeshifter

📷Jamie Kelter Davis (left) and Erin Schaff. NYTimes.

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As Helene ravages the Atlantic Coast, super-charged by the climate crisis, it helps one appreciate the scale of this RNC backdrop —as if the pumps have the engineer’s head in a vise.

(Petroleum engineer Sarah Phillips speaks at RNC. Photo: Will Lanzoni/CNN.)