Image brokers : visualizing world news in the age of digital circulation /

"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...

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Main Author: Gürsel, Zeynep Devrim (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: California : University of California Press, 2016
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: formative fictions: the work of international news images
  • What precedes a news image?
  • Global views Inc.: shock and awe and visualizing politics
  • Agence France Presse: what is the dominant?
  • Newsworld: everyday practices of editing the world
  • Barnstorm: an iconic rite of passage
  • Visa pour l'image: personal visions and the amateur threat
  • World Press Photo: developing an image of the world
  • Conclusion: timeline of war on terror.