News as art

From my misspent years in DC, I believe I can identify every person in this photo (just now, from Doug Mills of the NYT):

But why didn't I take more Fine Arts classes in college? Then I would know exactly which Old Master tableau this lineup so powerfully reminds me of. The human dramas suggested by these faces. This is an impromptu work of art.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2009/04/news-as-art/16944/