Tunisia. Photo by Christophe Ena/AP, Time, January 16, 2011. ”A poster of former Tunisian resident Sine El Abidine Ben Ali iin the center of Tunis is torn apart. The former president fled to Saudi Arabia on January 14, when his control of the government collapsed. For revolutionaries and photographers alike, torn posters are potent means of visual storytelling.”
Tunisia. Photo by Fred Dufour/AFP/Getty Images. Time, January 18, 2011. u201dThe Arab world's first popular uprising, as Time magazine put it, came with violence and trepidation. Here, a man lies injured during a clash with riot police in Tunis. Protesters were tear-gassed while demonstrating against Tunisia's new government.u201d
Tunis. Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images, Boston Globe, January 26, 2011. u201dA Tunisian man pauses to watch the protest.u201d
Tripoli. Photo by Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images, New York Times, January 26, 2011. u201dA supporter of Hariri carves up a poster of Hebollah's Najib Migati. The protest was called 'A Day of Rage'.u201d rn
Tripoli. Photo by Ahmed Omar/AP, New York Times, January 26 2011. u201dNo symbolism needed in this shot: In Lebanon, supporters of former Prime Minister Saad Hariri chase soldiers through the streets. Hariri's government this month after Hezbollah and its allied parties withdrew. Is this the Middle East's version of People Power?u201d
Cairo. Photo by Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images, Boston Globe, January 26, 2011. u201dThousands of Egyptians took to the streets to call for an end to President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule. Here the protest appears chaotic.u201d
Cairo. Photo by Mohammed Abu Zaid/AP, Boston Globe, January 26 u201dIn this street-level view of the Cairo protest, chaos becomes ferocity.u201d
Sting and Trudie Styler. Photo by Terry Richardson, Harper's Bazaar, February 2011. u201dTerry Richardson is the master at combining sex and comedy. And who doesn't get a good laugh out of Sting and Trudie's sex life?u201d
Spider-Man. Photo by Annie Leibovitz, Vogue US, February 2011. u201dIt was supposed to be the biggest show on Broadway this season, but instead 'Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark' has become the subject of jokes by late-night TV hosts. Cost overruns, the death of a producer, technological malfunctions, and injuries to its cast have delayed the opening the of $65-million musical. Nonetheless, Vogue used the show as inspiration for a extravagant fashion story, shot by Annie Leibovitz, no less. The images are over-the-top miracles of art direction and post-production wizardry. Sometimes, too much is just right.u201d
Rooney Mara. Photo by Jean-Baptiste Mondino, W, February 2011. u201dThe most coveted role in Hollywood this year went to relatively unknown actress Rooney Mara, who beat out dozens of others to portray Lizbeth Salander in director David Finch's upcoming film version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. (Mara had a leading role in Finch's extraordinary film The Social Network, as well.) Now she is far from unknown: For this fashion layout in W, Mondino suggests that the Salander role will leave a permanent mark on Mara.u201d
Spider-Man. Photo by Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, February 2011
Jennifer Aniston. Photo by Michael Thompson, Allure, February 2011. u201dThe creative director of Allure, Paul Cavaco, says he drew inspiration for this photo from a 1960s image of Brigitte Bardot.u201d
Justin Bieber. Photo by Art Streiber, Vanity Fair, Feburary 2011. u201dArt Streiber is one of my favorite magazine portrait photographersu2026.In this picture he transforms 'the most popular 16-year-old on the planet' into a 1950s teen idol, showing how things never really change.u201d
Syracuse University. Photo by Fred Vuich, Sports Illustrated, January 21, 2011. u201dThe vaunted Syracuse 'Orangemen' basketball team was playing an important game against the team from rival Villanova University, but Fred Vuich found more excitement and color among the spectators.u201d
The Lettre is now offering a weekly press review of photographic stories in American newspapers and magazines. It will run every Friday, prepared by David Schonauer, former senior editor of American Photo and founder of the blog “I like to Watch”.
This week it´s of course a lot of focus on Tunisa and Egypt but also images by photographers like Terry Richardson, Jean-Baptiste Mondino and Annie Leibovitz from magazines like Vogue US, Vanity Fair and W. The celebrity portraits include names like Jennifer Aniston, Sting and Justin Biber….
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