What's been interesting to track the last year or so are news photos that push the aesthetics or art photographs that somehow wend their way onto more editorial turf. This photo by Martin Schoeller at TIME Lightbox, published on the heels of Olympic gold, seems to fit those terms. It shows Gabby Douglas in the home of the host family she's been living with in Iowa the past two years. Kitsch art meets Olympic mania? I can't really speak to the artistic intent. I have some thoughts about the commercial and cultural politics, though.

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