Image Brokers : Visualizing World News in the Age of Digital Circulation / Zeynep Devrim Gursel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gürsel, Zeynep Devrim, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

News agencies--Case studies.

News agencies.

Photographs--Marketing--Social aspects.

Photographs.

Photojournalism--Social aspects.

Photojournalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Gürsel argues, function as formative fictions - 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 photojournalism's centers of power, Image Brokers offers an intimate look at an industry in crisis. At the turn of the 21st century, image brokers-the people who manage the distribution and restriction of news images-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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: Formative Fictions and the Work of News Images

1. What Precedes the Digital News Image?

2. Global Views Inc.: Visualizing Politics, from Shock and Awe to the Fall of Saddam Hussein

3. Agence France-Presse: What Is the Dominant?

4. Newsworld: Everyday Practices of Editing the World

5. Barnstorm: An American Rite of Passage

6. Visa Pour l'Image: Personal Visions and Amateur Documents

7. World Press Photo: Developing World Photography

Conclusion: Waiting for the Dust to Settle

Acknowledgments

APPENDIX A: Cast of Characters

APPENDIX B: Timeline of the "War on Terror"

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520961616

0520961617

OCLC:

932302728