War Is Beautiful: The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the

War Is Beautiful: The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict*

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

Bestselling author David Shields analyzed over a decadeâ€™s worth of front-page war photographs from TheÂ New York TimesÂ and came to a shocking conclusion: the photo-editing process ofÂ the â€œpaper of record,â€Â by way of pretty, heroic, and lavishly aesthetic image selection, pullsÂ the woolÂ over 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.Â This powerful media mouthpiece, the mightyÂ Times, far from being a check on governmental power, is in reality a massive amplifier for its dark forces by virtue of the way it aestheticizesÂ warfare. Anyone baffled by the willful American involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan canâ€™t help but see in this book how eagerly and invariably theÂ TimesÂ led 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 imagesâ€™ opiatic numbing. The photographs gathered inÂ War Is Beautiful, often beautiful and always artful, are filters of reality rather than the documentary journalism they purport to be.
Country USA
Brand powerHouse Books
Manufacturer powerHouse Books
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 65
ReleaseDate 2015-11-10
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781576877593

Country	USA
Brand	powerHouse Books
Manufacturer	powerHouse Books
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	65
ReleaseDate	2015-11-10
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9781576877593

War Is Beautiful: The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict*

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