Yeah, that's super weird. I'm assuming not deliberate.
Safari 9.1.2 on OS X 10.11.6
Win 7, tried in latest Chrome and Firefox, thought it might be a graphics driver issue, but I'm assuming not if it's across OS X as well
The captions mention "Photo Illustration by ..." with a credit to the source photography, so this actually looks intentional.
It's very jarring and distracting.
Definitely deliberate. Captions say "Photo Illustration."
Win10, Chrome. Same effect here. Weird, but cool.
Incredibly distracting and visually painful. I had to scroll them just out of view to read the article. I'm surprised the NYT would do this intentionally.
Thanks! I meant to edit the URL, but I forgot. X_x