Mediating Madness “Let down, perhaps, by the mainstream media, 21 percent of people under 30 say they are learning about the campaign from satirical sources like “The Daily Show” and the late-night television monologues, up from 9 percent in 2000, according to a Pew Research Center study released in January…. Remembering Reagan It was 23 years ago when I visited the White House. Having to call from the Washington airport, then arrive in a certain number of minutes for the Secret Service to know it was me... Photography's "Amateur Hour" If awards were to be given for the Most Important Photographs of 2004, certainly the photographs from Abu Ghraib prison would rank high on the list. As would the photographs of the caskets of American soldiers killed in Iraq... The Horror, The Horror When people commandeered airplanes to destroy the World Trade Towers on September 11, they did it in the visual language of Hollywood, making it the most photographed event in the history of the world... Israeli Pioneer in Space With the disaster of the space shuttle Columbia, it is as if a wing of the American eagle had broken and fell. Part of that broken wing is Israeli... Ninety miles an hour? We live in an era of: suicide bombers, cloned animals, smart bombs... Looking Through Windows & Mirrors The events of September 11 have made us wonder about many things. One is the "Information Age" which we all have celebrated, convinced that by buying our "Apples," clicking a "mouse" and looking through our "Windows," that we were actually seeing something. But were we? The Battle of Images "The problem is that the images no longer explain, they obfuscate." New Standards For Photographic Reproduction in the Media Statement on "not a lens" icon developed at New York University in 1994 In Our Own Image An excerpt on quantum photography Witnessing and the Web: An Argument for a New Photojournalism A non-linear essay by Fred Ritchin