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​Today is, if you haven't heard, Donald Trump's 100th day as president. And since you've probably read all about, our friends at ViewFind have curated some of the best photojournalism from Trump's campaign and time in office. 

The Election Of Our Discontent

 Michael Cali via ViewFind

For a country that boasts unity in its very name, the United States is once again at a time of deep polarization. No event better encapsulates this division than the spectacle that was the 2016 presidential election.

[ViewFind]


Trump's Win And The State of Photography In America

I'm increasingly wondering how and why some of the best photographic work doesn't seem to move the needle on public understanding, with none of it rising to the surface in the way it has in the past. Perhaps Trump was just too loud and the media too tone deaf.

[TIME]

Photos From Within Trump's White House Are Why Photography Was Invented

The current administration might retrospectively be considered the most opaquely transparent White House in U.S. history: In trying so hard not to reveal information, it reveals everything, and more.

[HuffPost]


The Photography Of Trump's Presidency Is A Huge Break From Obama's 

In its visual representation, as in so many other respects, the Trump administration has made a break with the past. 

[The Verge]

Why Time's Trump Cover Is A Subversive Work of Political Art

The decisions that Time made regarding how to photograph Trump reveal a layered, nuanced field of references that place the image among, in this viewer's opinion, the magazine's greatest covers.

[Forward]

Donald Trump, Hiding In Plain Sight

What Barack Obama understood, and Donald Trump perhaps doesn't, is that seeing a President unguarded in photographs need not necessarily diminish the respect he commands as a leader.

[The New Yorker]


In Sight, Yet Elusive: A Year Of Photographing Donald Trump

 

No matter how restrictive the campaign, there are usually some opportunities to capture the small and revealing moments that occur in back rooms at rallies and during the grueling, cross-country trips as the candidates court voters. These, traditionally, have been vital elements of campaign coverage, allowing us to produce a richer, more nuanced account. In the Trump campaign, there have been almost none.

[New York Times]


A Photographer's Haunting Images Of Trump Masks At The Mexican Border

[Fusion]

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