In this case, the photo circulated by joint American-Mexican narco security about the major, major arrest of major, major Mexican drug kingpin, Joaquín Guzmán Loera on Friday, instantly reminded me of another photo, a hugely infamous one.Ĭertainly, its rare to encounter as single, clear and near-ubiquitous a reference as the Merkel Hitler photo did - at least, not so accidentally. culturally relevant it is, you’ll have to let me know. And the fact that Bibi, being his usual imposing self with that digit, is continuously evoking the Holocaust … and stands for nothing if not the triumph of the will.īecause photos are often as significant for what they remind us of as for what they contain, Netanyahu turning Merkel into Hitler reminded me of a photo link that pulsed through my synapses just last night. The fact Merkel’s gaze and profile is in the ballpark too. Of course, what raises the photo to “epic” is everything ironic that gets baked in also: the fact Bibi is projecting a Hitler vibe on a comparatively low alpha German chancellor, and a female one to boot. The pieces in play around that “mustache” are just too rich here – given the behavior of a shadow in combination with the presence of the Israeli Prime Minister, the German Chancellor and the infamy of that lip ornament. Yes, sometimes the connection between one visual and another is so blatant, it commandeers our mental hard drive in connecting the dots. In the case of today’s Merkel/Netanyahu photo by Yoav Lemmer, people couldn’t help tweeting (and cleverly riffing with vivid word play) because of the drop dead A to B relationship. ![]() ![]() Simply put though, one of its wonders has to do with its tendency to call up related pictures from that encyclopedic storehouse known as the brain. It’s easy to get all theoretical about this marvelous object known as the photograph.
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