It’s been a week since the inauguration of President Obama and after pouring over hundreds of links to photographs and multimedia coverage, these are three of my favorites. You can click on the photographs to open each link in a new window. Each is well worth your time.
Photograph by Mustafah Abdulaziz
Burn Magazine, a creation of Magnum’s David Alan Harvey, had a great black and white portfolio of the events by photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz. I love the tonality and vision. Abdulaziz was clearly shooting from the heart.
Photograph by Scott Strazzante
Chicago Tribune photographer Scott Strazzante wrote a short piece for SportsShooter.Com about two of his favorite photographs from D.C. Strazzante always has a different, original look.
Photograph by Doug Mills
And finally, documentary filmmaker Errol Morris interviewed three top photo editors about the iconic images they picked to tell the story of the Bush Presidency. Every post on Morris’ blog is a must-read (even the ones that are so deep they make my head swim), but this one points out an important fact: Much of our perception of history comes from still photographs. These photographs are how we will remember history. Not from video, not from TV, not from words (okay, maybe words a little bit). Read it and weep.
