Doom in America: What The NY Post Subway Death Photo Is Really About

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Doom in America: What The NY Post Subway Death Photo Is Really About – Reading The Pictures

If there’s a deeper critique of the photo, it’s that the catalyst and real subject of concern is missing.

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Beyond the pitched cries of editorial impropriety, however, perhaps it’s not all clear what the subway photo is really about. When you think about it, for example, what the photo offers is not the story of what happened so much as its consequence. What’s missing in the photo is “the perp,” the push — the event which resulted in the horrible result we’re exposed to above