David Shields

(Author)

War Is Beautiful: The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict*Hardcover, 10 November 2015

War Is Beautiful: The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict*
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Print Length
112 pages
Language
English
Publisher
powerHouse Books
Date Published
10 Nov 2015
ISBN-10
1576877590
ISBN-13
9781576877593

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* (in which the author explains why he no longer readsThe New York Times)

Bestselling author David Shields analyzed over a decade's worth of front-page war photographs from TheNew York Timesand came to a shocking conclusion: the photo-editing process ofthe paper of record, by way of pretty, heroic, and lavishly aesthetic image selection, pullsthe woolover the eyes of its readers; Shields forces us to face not only the the media's complicity in dubious and catastrophic military campaigns but our own as well.This powerful media mouthpiece, the mightyTimes, far from being a check on governmental power, is in reality a massive amplifier for its dark forces by virtue of the way it aestheticizeswarfare. Anyone baffled by the willful American involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan can't help but see in this book how eagerly and invariably theTimesled the way in making the case for these wars through the manipulation of its visuals. Shields forces the reader to weigh the consequences of our own passivity in the face of these images' opiatic numbing. The photographs gathered inWar Is Beautiful, often beautiful and always artful, are filters of reality rather than the documentary journalism they purport to be.

Product Details

Author:
David Shields
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
CN
Date Published:
10 November 2015
Dimensions:
23.11 x 29.21 x 2.03 cm
Genre:
21st Century
ISBN-10:
1576877590
ISBN-13:
9781576877593
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
112
Weight:
929.86 gm

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