Visions of China: A 2008 Olympics Picture Blog : Picture of the Day: August 24, 2008

Newsweek - National News, World News, Health, Technology, Entertainment and more... | Newsweek.com

Pix Blog: The Beijing Olympics

RSS

Authors

Vincent Laforet

Donald Miralle

Mike Powell

Featured Postings

Farewell Beijing - it’s been a “Dream Job” to cover these Olympics

12:03 PM, August 24, 2008 | Comments (31)

Photograph by Vincent Laforet for NEWSWEEK By the time many of your are reading this post, I will be on my way to the airport to catch my flight back to New York City. The Beijing Olympics will have concluded and thousands of others will be making their...

U.S.A. Wins First Gold Medal in Men's Basketball in Eight Years

6:52 AM, August 24, 2008 | Comments (3)

Off to the airport

8:36 PM, August 23, 2008 | Comments (5)

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
					1	2
3	4	5	6	7	8	9
10	11	12	13	14	15	16
17	18	19	20	21	22	23
24	25	26	27	28	29	30
31

Picture of the Day: August 24, 2008

Donald Miralle

Photograph by Donald Miralle for NEWSWEEK

The Olympics are over, and the sports event has generally been considered an entertainment triumph. What will quickly come back into sharp focus, however, is that China is a world power whose politics will continue to loom large. This communist nation is getting ever more powerful. Its political, economic and humanitarian actions—and inactions—will be a major factor in shaping our world. This picture, by Donald Miralle, while acknowledging the sporting spectacle, also conjures up the uncertainty about what lies ahead. For me, as Picture of the Day, it is an appropriately ominous image on which to close. —Simon Barnett, Director Photography, NEWSWEEK

See a gallery of NEWSWEEK's photography from Day 16 of the competition

Picture of the Day

Permalink: http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/olympicpix/archive/2008/08/24/picture-of-the-day-august-24-2008.aspx

Type Size

Social Networks

Permalink: http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/olympicpix/archive/2008/08/24/picture-of-the-day-august-24-2008.aspx

TrackBack URL: http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/olympicpix/trackback.aspx?PostID=585178

You must be a registered user to comment. Click here to register. Already a user? Click here to login.

Member Comments

Posted By: Sinibaldi (September 1, 2008 at 10:55 AM)

El profesor y el sonido de la vida.

Recuerdo el

mágico tiempo

del amor melodioso,

y dulce e silente

el sueño regresa

en la tímida mente

que transforma

la vida en el

canto del sol:

espero la noche,

la siesta infinita.

Francesco Sinibaldi

Report Abuse

Posted By: Sinibaldi (August 30, 2008 at 5:28 PM)

Listening to you.

In the cool

celerity of a

diffident young

bird I try

to forget a dying

behaviour, the

sound of a picture

and a luminous

care, easily,

like an earnest

desire.

Francesco Sinibaldi to friends of Newsweek.

Report Abuse

Posted By: andrewo (August 26, 2008 at 3:34 PM)

Thanks to all of you, photographers and editors, for making this blog possible. It's been an absolutely fascinating journey for me, I've loved every post. The combination of stunning and unique images with great writing and compelling narratives have made a complete package that I just haven't seen before. As somebody who bangs away taking pictures of my family through a cheap SLR it's been a real inspiration. Thanks. I'll be on the lookout for more images and blogs featuring you all in the future.

Report Abuse

Show All Comments (10) »