How does a photograph become a news image? An ethnography of the labor behind international news images; Image Brokers ruptures the self-evidence of the journalistic photograph by revealing the many factors determining how news audiences are shown people; events; and the world. News images; Zeynep Guuml;rsel argues; function as formative fictions ndash; fictional insofar as these images are constructed and culturally mediated; and formative because their public presence and circulation have real consequences in the world. Set against the backdrop of the War on Terror and based on fieldwork conducted at photojournalismrsquo;s centers of power; Image Brokers offers an intimate look at an industry in crisis. At the turn of the 21st century; image brokersmdash;the people who manage the distribution and restriction of news imagesmdash;found the core technologies of their craft; the status of images; and their own professional standing all changing rapidly with the digitalization of the infrastructures of representation. From corporate sales meetings to wire service desks; newsrooms to photography workshops and festivals; Image Brokers investigates how news images are produced and how worldviews are reproduced in the process.
2012-06-01 2016-04-07File Name: B01DY4FBRA
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