Photo Ops and Staging: Beyond White House Access, the Larger Issue is What We Have Access To

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Photo Ops and Staging: Beyond White House Access, the Larger Issue is What We Have Access To – Reading The Pictures

The current antagonism between photographers and the White House needs to be broadened beyond the simple question of access. It is time to look at the bigger picture, and make the photo-op as much the subject, so we have a visual record of how events and

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Media representatives and White House officials have started a series of meetings to discuss photographers’ access to the President. But it is unlikely that the bigger issue was on the table – access to what? If media organizations want to give us open journalism that pulls back the curtain on the theatre of politics, they have to use this moment to question the centrality of the photo op in the presentation of politics.