Feast of Famine Pictures From Somalia … and What a Photo “Ought to Do”

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A Feast of Famine Pictures From Somalia … and What a Photo “Ought to Do” – Reading The Pictures

Times’ Executive Editor Bill Keller says photographs like this “ought to disturb us, at least.” But if that’s all he’s asking a photograph to do, to deliver the “concern” in “concern photojournalism,” Keller (and Salon) are missing the point.

via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2011/08/feast-of-famine-pictures-from-somalia-and-what-a-photo-ought-to-do/

Salon inoculated itself and all the usual suspects via an article on the New York Times’ decision to run this haunting Tyler Hicks’ photograph on their front page