Many environmentalists say that the wrenching and omnipresent images of filth and death are at last providing Americans with visible, visceral and possibly mobilizing evidence of the effects that fossil fuels are having on our environment every day.
Others, channeling their inner Joe Wilson, screamed "You lie, you lie!" while waving U.S. flags and the now omnipresent images of Obama as Hitler, or Obama as the Joker, along with the usual placards decrying the "march to socialism".
Since the advent of the Internet, memes have taken all manner of forms: an early digital animation of a dancing baby, a video of a kid doing his finest Star Wars moves with a metal rod and of course, the LOLcat — the omnipresent images of cats saying cute, grammatically incorrect things. .
This type of degradation, to a certain extent, is unavoidable in real imaging devices, and, coupled with the also omnipresent imaging noise, poses a formidable challenge for image processing scientists and engineers.
Whether it's working with colour film and scanning, or black and white darkroom work and silver gelatin prints, the niche arena of analogue photography will command respect and give work an extra dimension - a coda to the work: a final flourish of materiality that, all other things being equal, set it slightly above the omnipresent digital image.
Melo layers this omnipresent icon over visually arresting, often disturbing images that signify this cultural tumult.
And yet, very often, that is exactly what they think they have to compete with because the iconic, omnipresent female images are, they believe, what the boys prefer.
If Bob Marley's music was unpopular in Jamaica and only liked by white people, why is his image omnipresent in Jamaica?
Through Dec. 18 Allan deSouza's photographs alternate between two images omnipresent in recent news: rocky, desertlike landscapes and the Manhattan skyline.
