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Politics and the Visual Image

Listen Wednesday, Apr. 5, 2006 at 1:06 p.m. in Arts & Culture, Conflict, Politics, Society

From Iraq to Capitol Hill, photographic images provide visual narratives that help frame political debates. We look at how images reinforce- and on occasion subvert- conventional political wisdom.

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Guests

Philip Kennicott

Culture Critic, Washington Post

Susan Moeller

Associate Professor, Philip Merrill College of Journalism and School of Public Policy, University of Maryland

Roger M. Richards

Multimedia Editor/Producer, "The Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk,VA); Editor and Publisher, The Digital Filmmaker

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President George W. Bush, speaking in front of seal of the United States, September 2003. <div><em>AP, September 2003</em></div>
President George W. Bush, speaking in front of seal of the United States, September 2003.
AP, September 2003
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President Bush at the Naval Academy, December 2005.<div><em>Alex Wong, Getty Images 2005</em></div>
An Iraqi woman shows her ink-stained finger after casting her vote in the Iraqi election at a polling station in southern Iraq, December 2005.<div><em>Matt Dunham, AP December 2005</em></div>
Additional Abu-Ghraib pictures released by Australian television. <div><em>Sbs Dateline February 2006</em></div>
Vice President Cheney speaking at the U.S. Labor Department's 2006 National Summit on Retirement Savings, March 2006. <div><em>Larry Downing, Reuters 2006</em></div>
Former House majority leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), March 2006.<div><em>Win Mcnamee, Getty Images, March 2006</em></div>
Representative Tom DeLay in the Cannon House Office Building April 4 after news he will not run for re-election.<div><em>Jay Westcott/Examiner, via Associated Press, April 2006</em></div>

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