Searching for Nachtwey's Photo Essay on Time.com
Time continues to puzzle us with its treatment of photographs online and on its cover. This week's issue of Time's print edition devotes seven pages to the new essay by James Nachtwey on tuberculosis, probably the most anticipated photo story in recent memory. For the cover, however, editors chose an historic photo from the Corbis Bettmann archive:
Well, that's a miss, but we'll concede that today's economic crisis is a pretty big deal and a story that's hard to photograph. Surely the editors ran Nachtwey's images big on Time.com, right? No. It's not even on the photo essay page. If you drill down into the site you'll find the images as part of a small Flash video with instrumental music behind it.
But don't bother following that link – Instead, go directly to Boston.com's The Big Picture, which has Nachtwey's photos big and bold, the way they ought to be displayed. The Web site for the tuberculosis project, XDRTB.org, also displays the photos at a good size.











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