BAGnewsSalon: First 100 Days

Another BAG­news­Sa­lon is com­ing up.  Huge thanks to Michael Shaw and Cara Finnegan for tak­ing up many of my respon­si­bil­i­ties as pro­ducer for this one as I wrap up my time at the New School.  Look­ing for­ward to the conversation!

Obama: The First 100 Days
Sun­day, May 3, 2009
7:30–9: pm EST; 4:30–6:00 pm PST

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This Salon will exam­ine a cross-section of Obama Admin­is­tra­tion images lead­ing up to this 100-day mark. We hope to con­sider var­i­ous fac­tors, includ­ing how the White House frames issues via pic­tures; what the images say about the char­ac­ter and capac­i­ties of Obama and his team; and whether the images evi­dence a new tone and atti­tude in the coun­try now. The BAG­news­Sa­lon is an on-line, real-time dis­cus­sion of selected images between invited guests on teh BAG­news­Notes blog.

Dis­cus­sants par­tic­i­pat­ing include pro­fes­sors Loret Stein­berg (R.I.T.) and Nathan Stormer (U. of Maine), his­to­rian Michael Stein­berg, pho­tog­ra­pher Brian Ulrich, Daryl Lang (PDN), David Schonauer (Amer­i­can Photo), host Michael Shaw, mod­er­a­tor Cara Finnegan (U. of Illi­nois), and salon pro­ducer Ida Benedetto.