Oded Balilty wins the Pulitzer!!!!

Is award season over?

CONGRATULATIONS! :)

One of the problem with photojournalists is they start this visual masturbation without understanding history or reading contexts properly. Call it ignorance or just pure blindness. This picture and the lone Chinese man have very different contexts and meaning. In the Chinese context there is a man symbolically fighting with an oppressive system. And think about it-a man standing against monstrous violent machines. Does the political reading of a lone woman defending her land which she has occupied by displacing palestinians who for generations live in refuge camps,have the same meaning? Similarities end purely at a visual level. Beyond it, its a whole another beast.

Historical context is often overlooked.

That is the most ignorant and immature premise, propped up by one of the most illiterate arguments in genre criticism, I have ever heard in my entire life. I see that the owner of that crude, smarty-pants reply is using the internet with the same ease and anonymous authority as those great philosophers of the past who use to sit in the bathroom stalls of local public high schools and think up enlightening summations like “Joe Blows” to scribble on their walls so future generations that follow will benefit from its profound theory analysis as they sit there and contemplate the perceived blunders of their peers.

OK, enough fun with that…..

Now to get back to the congratulative nature of Kitra’s thread topic. Here is another article on Bality’s well-deserved win by Nahal Toosi for the News Tribune, Tacoma, Washington.

AP wins Pulitzer for dramatic photo, April 16, 2007