Photos of Tumbling Stock Markets
posted by Paul Ohm
It appears there are only so many ways to use photos to illustrate tumbling stock markets, because a few moments ago, the front page of the New York Times website carried this photo from Frankfurt taken by Daniel Roland/AP as its main image:
and the Washington Post highlighted this photo of a trader in Shanghai from Reuters:
There’s something particularly Hitchcockian about the photo from Frankfurt, with the menacing line graph creeping up from behind the harried trader.
Maybe this is the start of a new meme? If you spot other “traders in anguish in front of giant, depth-of-field-blurred, plummeting line graphs,” post them here.
September 16, 2008 at 9:55 am
Posted in: Current Events
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Frank - September 16, 2008 at 10:42 am
The pictures are a bit silly….but are there any other compelling visualizations that may actually stir a somnambulant public into thinking about the country’s long term financial future?
Bruce Boyden - September 16, 2008 at 11:21 am
There was an article in the NY Times a few years back that showed how news stories about down days on Wall Street were typically illustrated not just with similar shots, but with the same guy — a very expressive commodities trader at the NY Mercantile Exchange, if I remember correctly.
Frank - September 16, 2008 at 3:14 pm
the gallery of frazzled stockbrokers:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2008/09/15/GA2008091501421.html?sid=ST2008091600045
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