Skip to main content

Getting Past the Icon -- Should Photographers Depict Reality, or Try to Change It?

David Bacon Afterimage
Can photographers be participants in the social events they document? Eighty years ago the question would have seemed irrelevant in the political upsurges of the 1930s, in both Mexico and the United States. Many photographers were political activists, and saw their work intimately connected to workers strikes, political revolution or the movements for indigenous rights. Now a book and a recent exhibition should reopen this debate.

Hospitals Should be Care Providers Not Loan Sharks

Deborah Burger National Nurses United
Hospital lobbyists have tried for years to convince us all that predatory pricing policies don’t matter. But the grotesque reality tells a different story.