![]() In my job, you walk the same hallways as the senators, you eat in the same cafeterias, but I haven’t spoken to Bernie. I like Edward Hopper very much, and the people who put the Bernie image into his famous Nighthawks painting, along with works by artists such as Georges Seurat, Edvard Munch and Vincent van Gogh, weren’t just cutting and pasting, they were actually mimicking the brushstrokes and the style. 0tgtr4fqXi- Ryan O'Shea January 21, 2021 And it’s interesting to see some of the creativity that went into the memes – some of the stuff I saw was really good. Making this image into a meme is technically a misuse of journalism – but it’s been fun to watch. I’m not super engaged with social media, and it was a busy day with cold hands, but when I started to see several hundred, and then 1,000 mentions on my social media accounts, not long after I had sent the picture to AFP, I know something was going on. I’ve been covering Capitol Hill for 20 years and have had a few pictures go viral before. So we do our best to mitigate their trying to control the image and the narrative. One challenge you have covering politics is that stuff can be really dry it’s not always visually interesting and lots of events are stage managed. ![]() ![]() I think every picture a photojournalist takes should be efficient, in that somebody can look at it quickly and understand what’s going on, but then it should offer more. ![]() But with any picture, content is king and the content here is Bernie Sanders being Bernie Sanders. This is not an example of a clean photo: the composition’s not perfect there are people in the way, and chair legs. Just like a sentence can be structured properly, a photo can be put together properly so that every element in it contributes something in a way that can be kind of poetic. And the people who put this image into his famous Nighthawks painting mimicked his style ![]()
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