David Schonauer begins his press review with the picture that shocked the majority of the French, (John Marino, Daily News) : Dominique Strauss-Kahn, leaving prison, surrounded by the state police of New York. No presumption of innocence for the president of the IMF, the American courts judge and display the tragedy.
Another trial took place on May 12. That of John Demjanjuk, a former Nazi who came out of hiding after so many years. Guilty of crimes in a concentration camp during the Second World War, he will finally be brought to justice.
The second part of David Schonauer’s review is called “Moments of despair”: It begins with a picture taken in Misurata where we see in the foreground a man terrified by flames. The picture is that much more impressive when one learns that the photographer was right there. (AFP/Getty Images, Time). It continues in Pakistan with a picture by Arshad Arbab for the New York Times showing two men transporting a man mutilated by a suicide attack in the city’s military training zone. This section’s final picture is by Jeff Robertson. A symbolic picture of the flooding in Memphis, Tennessee.
The third section, “Portraits”, shows extravagant personalities including Lady Gaga on a lawn chair in fishnet stockings photographed by Wolfgang Tillmans for i-D magazine. Or Steven Tyler and his red motorcycle in a rock and roll setting by Theo Wenner for Rolling Stone. Without forgetting the final touch, an affectionate kiss between Kim Kardashian and basketball star Kris Humphries. The journalist’s question in the magazine In Touch was about the young lady’s impressive posterior: “Is it the result of implants or a role model for future celebrity buttocks?”
The last section presents two magazine covers, that by Collier Schorr for Dossier Journal and Rob Howard’s for O, The Oprah Magazine.
