On the Photo Coverage of the One Year Anniversary of the Ferguson Crisis and the Death of Michael Brown — BagNews

Written by

Trent

in

On the Photo Coverage of the One Year Anniversary of the Ferguson Crisis and the Death of Michael Brown – Reading The Pictures

I was looking and hoping for imagery that got underneath the more stereotyped depiction of violence, anger and despair.

via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2015/08/photo-coverage-anniversary-ferguson/

In surveying yesterday’s photo coverage, what I was looking and hoping for was imagery that got underneath the more stereotypal depiction of violence, anger and despair. Specifically, I was looking for pictures that captured some of the complexity and even the mundane intractability of Ferguson’s difficulties.

More posts