It’s Election Day here in the U.S., and no one should miss this opportunity to have their voice heard by voting. In politics, as in many things in life, it’s the loudest among us who tend to garner the most attention. Volume is more persuasive and powerful than facts or reason. That’s unfortunate, but it’s not impossible to overcome—if you take the time to go vote.
Speaking of being loud, the Tea Party is now not just a movement but a photographic genre, it appears. It’s similar to how foreclosure photography has become a genre, with the many examples including young photographer Rhyen Coombs, who won a Dorothea Lange Fellowship for her foreclosure images; Lauren Greenfield, who produced a major photo essay on the Inland Empire; and the photographers showcased in a recent New York Times blog post on foreclosure photography.
At its website, Time magazine offers a photo essay on the Tea Party by David Walter Banks. Here’s one of his images:
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Tea Partiers at a Nashville convention. Photo by David Walter Banks/Luceo for TIME.
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Back in August, Time published a photo essay called “Souvenirs From the Tea Party,” featuring photos by Nicholas Hegel McLelland of “trinkets found at Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor Rally and on the Internet.” This particular series is also notable because it was shot with an iPhone 4 and the now-ubiquitous Hipstamatic app. Here’s one of Nicholas’ images:
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Photo by Nicholas Hegel McLelland for TIME.
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And then there’s “Riding With the Tea Party,” an essay by Jason Andrew that The New Yorker‘s Photo Booth blog featured yesterday:
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Photo by Jason Andrew/Reportage by Getty Images.
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“You mention that the people at the rallies don’t know much about the behind the scenes operations, and we don’t see that in the images either,” The New Yorker‘s Whitney Johnson asks Jason in the blog post.
“It’s just not very visual,” he replies. “It’s just big politics hiding behind a grassroots movement. I’m interested to see how much influence the Tea Party movement will have in [the] midterm elections.”
Indeed.
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The Tea Party as a photographic genre
It’s Election Day here in the U.S., and no one should miss this opportunity to have their voice heard by voting. In politics, as in many things in life, it’s the loudest among us who tend to garner the most attention. Volume is more persuasive and powerful than facts or reason. That’s unfortunate, but it’s not impossible to overcome—if you take the time to go vote.
Speaking of being loud, the Tea Party is now not just a movement but a photographic genre, it appears. It’s similar to how foreclosure photography has become a genre, with the many examples including young photographer Rhyen Coombs, who won a Dorothea Lange Fellowship for her foreclosure images; Lauren Greenfield, who produced a major photo essay on the Inland Empire; and the photographers showcased in a recent New York Times blog post on foreclosure photography.
At its website, Time magazine offers a photo essay on the Tea Party by David Walter Banks. Here’s one of his images:
.
Tea Partiers at a Nashville convention. Photo by David Walter Banks/Luceo for TIME.
.
Back in August, Time published a photo essay called “Souvenirs From the Tea Party,” featuring photos by Nicholas Hegel McLelland of “trinkets found at Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor Rally and on the Internet.” This particular series is also notable because it was shot with an iPhone 4 and the now-ubiquitous Hipstamatic app. Here’s one of Nicholas’ images:
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Photo by Nicholas Hegel McLelland for TIME.
.
And then there’s “Riding With the Tea Party,” an essay by Jason Andrew that The New Yorker‘s Photo Booth blog featured yesterday:
.
Photo by Jason Andrew/Reportage by Getty Images.
.
“You mention that the people at the rallies don’t know much about the behind the scenes operations, and we don’t see that in the images either,” The New Yorker‘s Whitney Johnson asks Jason in the blog post.
“It’s just not very visual,” he replies. “It’s just big politics hiding behind a grassroots movement. I’m interested to see how much influence the Tea Party movement will have in [the] midterm elections.”
Indeed.
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