I recently saw David Byrne
make an offhand observation (in the midst of a characteristically long blog post) that NY Times photos are "getting increasingly arty these days." I thought of that comment when I saw this photo on front page, linked to their article about
Egypt trying to reestablish its border with Gaza:
It's a pretty cool photo, but it's remarkably uninformative for a news photo. I guess it's informative in a moody sort of way, but I'm sure there were other photos available to the editors that conveyed much more info about what's happening. I'm not really criticizing, but it's an interesting trend.
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