Welcome to another edition of the BAGnewsSALON, an on-line, real-time chat involving the discussion of selected images between invited guests and readers of the BAGnewsNotes blog.
Scheduled to participate are moderator Cara Finnegan (University of Illinois); producer Ida Benedetto; host Michael Shaw; author and historian Michael Steinberg; professors John Lucaites (Indiana U.), BAGnewsNotes contributer, as well as blogger and co-author of "No Caption Needed," Loret Steinberg, professor of Photojournalism - RIT and Catherine Squires (U of Minnesota), author of Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America; photographer Aric Mayer; and distinguished photojournalists Mario Tama (Getty), Scout Tufankjian (her popular new book is: YES WE CAN: Barack Obama's History Making Campaign) and top freelancer Yana Paskova.
Michelle Obama is an assertive, attractive, professional, African-American woman who is about to become America's first lady. This combination of qualities poses a unique challenge to the American visual media. How are they handling it? At this BAGnewsSALON, we will examine a series of images that have circulated in the visual media in the post-election period.
