Introduction: Formative Fictions and the Work of News Images -- What Precedes the Digital News Image? -- Global Views Inc.: Visualizing Politics, from Shock and Awe to the Fall of Saddam Hussein -- Agence France-Presse: What Is the Dominant -- Newsworld: Everyday Practices of Editing the World -- Barnstorm: An American Rite of Passage -- Visa pour l'image: Personal Visions and Amateur Documents -- World Press Photo: Developing World Photography -- Conclusion: Waiting for the Dust to Settle
Summary
"Image Brokers is an in-depth ethnography that reveals the labor and infrastructure behind news images and how they are circulated. Zeynep Devrim Gürsel presents an intimate look at the ways image brokers--the people who manage the distribution or restriction of images--construct and culturally mediate the images they circulate. Through this framework, news images become commodities that impact how politics and culture are visualized in the world. Set against the backdrop of the War on Terror and based on fieldwork conducted at the photojournalism industry's centers of power in New York and Paris, Image Brokers explores the transition from analog to digital technologies and shows how new digital and social media platforms continue to change photojournalism and create ever-widening distribution networks. The book is a powerful investigation of the processes of decision-making amid the changing infrastructures of representation."--Provided by publisher
Analysis
digital news circulation
digital news images
image brokerage
images from the war on terror
journalism
journalist photograph
journalistic photography
marketing photographs
media studies
news agencies
news brokers
news images
news
photographers
photography
photojournalism
press images
press photography
production of news images
selling press images
visual culture
visual impact of journalism
visual media
visual news
war on terror
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
English
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