@ReadingThePix profile picture
Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix

The analysis of news photos & media images from the non-profit Reading the Pictures. Subscribe to our newsletter at: ReadingThePictures.Media

Joined August 2008
  • Tweets 21,096
  • Following 4,508
  • Followers 18,358
8,044 Photos and videos
I was terribly wrong. We are.
Reading The Pictures@ReadingThePix
5 Nov 2024
Not going back. (Photo: @davidb383 , Jan 6, 2021)
4
13
1,526
Not going back. (Photo: @davidb383 , Jan 6, 2021)
4
7
2,232
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)
3
615
Try telling it to the Spanish. #OneMoreThingWeMissedLastWeek
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
3 Nov 2024
Replying to @atrupar
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."
0:28
5
4
1,289
Closing arguments and open questions. "Harris vs. Trump: On Gender, Power, and the Future of America" readingthepictures.media/p/h…

Harris vs. Trump: On Gender, Power, and the Future of America

Watch now | Video: Harris’s tightrope.

readingthepictures.media
450
Something vital got lost in Campaign 2024. #climatecrisis
1
3
382
You could not find a more fundamental image right now. readingthepictures.org/2022/…
1
6
482
Halo pic of the day: His royal highness.
corinne_perkins@corinne_perkins
22 Oct 2024
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
682
Join us tomorrow evening in person or online! Other folks read the words, we read the pictures,
ICP@ICPhotog
17 Oct 2024
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: icp.org/events/the-reading-t…. Image @ErinSchaff, @nytimes
1
1
769
The Washington Post’s treatment of Trump at the Al Smith dinner (washingtonpost.com/politics/… ) aligns perfectly with our recent Substack: Shutter Shock: The Photos that Expose Trump’s Mind in Disarray readingthepictures.media/p/p… (Photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
1
1
1
608
Can’t say as much for the mostly normalizing pic the NYT used. (📷 Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
1
313
Reading The Pictures retweeted
ICP@ICPhotog
17 Oct 2024
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: icp.org/events/the-reading-t…. Image @ErinSchaff, @nytimes
2
2
1,962
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 readingthepictures.media/p/p…
1
4
503
#IndigenousPeoplesDay2024 📷@steffikeith
3
6
506
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.) readingthepictures.media/p/p…
2
5
593
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. readingthepictures.media/p/p…
Photo via New York Economic Club

ALT Photo via New York Economic Club
2
387
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.)
1
2
460
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. readingthepictures.media/p/j…
2
5
887
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.
1
1
464
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.)
4
3
487
Load more