Le Journal de la Photographie

Protests, Part 1 The award for the most stunningly bad behavior caught on camera this week goes to Lt. John Pike, a member of the campus police of the University of California, Davis, in northern California. During a peaceful “Occupy UC Davis” protest on November 18, Pike pepper-sprayed a number of students. The ... Protests, Part 2 ”Around the country, the crackdown on protesters continued. In Dallas, police arrested a dozen protesters after clearing out an encampment near City Hall. Photographer Patrick T. Fallon captured the face-off between authority and resistance.” Photo by Patrick T. Fallon/Dallas Morning News, “Lens,... The World: Cairo ”Eqypt tipped again toward violence as thousands gathered in Tahir Square to protest against the military’s control of the country. The wounded protester seen here is being treated by Red Crescent workers at a makeshift triage clinic.” Photo by Moises Saman, New York Times The World: Italy ”Entrance, Stage Left: Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi ushers his successor, Mario Monti, onto center stage at the Palazzo Chigi in Rome. The new prime minister faces the daunting task of keeping Italy from succumbing to the European debt crisis—the very issue that forced Berlusco... The World: Republic of Benin ”Catholic faithful prayed at a statue of the Virgin Mary at St. Michel Church in Cotonou, Benin, days before Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Africa for a visit. Photographer Rebecca Blackwell managed to make individual portraits of three women in the same frame.” Photo by Rebecca Blackwell/AP, “Fra... The Art of War “’America’s troops too often come home from war only to remain a step apart from the rest of the nation,’ writes Time magazine in the text accompanying Peter Hapak’s portfolio, which focuses on the tattoos that soldiers have gotten to commemorate their service. Hapak shot the photographs at the C... Crime Scene Investigation ”In 2009, the New York City Police Department began using a new camera, the Panoscan, to document crime scenes. The camera creates a 360-degee view that allows investigators to point and click over evidence from a scene that might have been missed during the initial examinations. (Think Weegee in... Bird of Prey ”It only looks like a hummingbird. In reality, the colorful specimen photographed in flight by photographer Jamie Chung is a remote-controlled surveillance device developed for the Defense Advance Research Project by a California-based company spectacularly named AeroVironment. The prototype, whi... Below the Line ”In 2010, more Americans lived below the poverty line than at any time since 1959, when the U.S. Census began collecting such data. Time sent photographer Joakim Eskildsen across the country over a seven-month period to record the many and varied faces of modern poverty. At left: Elizabeth and Al... Living Rooms “’With Earth's population headed toward nine or ten billion,’ notes National Geographic, ‘dense cities are looking more like a cure—the best hope for lifting people out of poverty without wrecking the planet.’ The magazine’s intriguing article on the benefits of city living notes, however, that c... Covers Story ”Sports Illustrated described the magnitude of the recent Penn State football scandal in no uncertain terms on this week’s cover. The story, said the magazine, was the ’most explosive…in the history of college sports.’ The scandal has already claimed the career of the school’s legendary football ... Guinness on the Rocks ”Interview magazine describes fashion icon Daphne Guinness as ‘part couture creature, part visual-art concept, part retro-futuristic creation.‘ The Guinness family heiress, who is launching her own film production company, is also a muse of photographers like Steven Klein, who photographed her pe... Wedding Portrait ”Two notable American clans were joined over Labor Day when Lauren Bush, granddaughter of President George H.W. Bush and niece of President George W. Bush, married David Lauren, son of designer Ralph Lauren. In this wedding portrait by celebrity photographer Norman Jean Roy, the bride wears a dre... Showmen ”According to GQ, TV talk-show host Jimmy Fallon and actor Justin Timberlake have revolutionized modern entertainment by pioneering a ’shinier, happier, singier-and-dancier brand of entertainment.’ That’s why the magazine included them in its annual ’Men of the Year’ issue. The pair clowned it up...