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How does a photograph become a news image? An ethnography of the labor behind international news images, this book ruptures the self-evidence of the journalistic photograph by revealing the many factors determining how news audiences are shown people, events, and the world.

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Introduction: Formative Fictions and the Work of News Images PART ONE. IMAGE-MAKING 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 PART TWO. WORLDMAKING 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 Contents Appendix A: Cast of Characters Appendix B: Timeline of the "War on Terror" Notes Bibliography Index

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/04/2016
      ISBN13: 9780520286375, 978-0520286375
      ISBN10: 0520286375
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      How does a photograph become a news image? An ethnography of the labor behind international news images, this book ruptures the self-evidence of the journalistic photograph by revealing the many factors determining how news audiences are shown people, events, and the world.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: Formative Fictions and the Work of News Images PART ONE. IMAGE-MAKING 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 PART TWO. WORLDMAKING 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 Contents Appendix A: Cast of Characters Appendix B: Timeline of the "War on Terror" Notes Bibliography Index

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