The weekly review of photography in the U.S. media starts in Russia, where disputed results from parliamentary elections led to mass demonstrations, and, perhaps, a serious challenge to Prime Minister and Vladimir Putin’s hold on power. Elsewhere, German Chancellor Angela Merkel became the sober new face of European economic policy, while in the United States the presidential primary season is set to begin. The entertaining contest between Republican Party hopefuls took another twist with the rise of former congressman and self-proclaimed big thinker Newt Gingrich in the polls. That’s a new face that is actually an old face. And there were the celebrated faces: A-Lister Brad Pitt channeling a hair-raising film villain, and D-Lister Lindsay Lohan again pretending to be Marilyn Monroe.
David Schonauer
