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020 $a9781576877593$q(hardcover)
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082 04 $a779.9355$223
100 1 $aShields, David,$d1956-$ecompiler,$eauthor.
245 10 $aWar is beautiful :$bthe New York Times pictorial guide to the glamour of armed conflict* /$cDavid Shields ; afterword by Dave Hickey.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aBrooklyn, New York :$bPowerHouse Books,$c2015.
300 $a111 pages :$bcolor illustrations ;$c24 x 30 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
336 $astill image$bsti$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $a"*(in which the author explains why he no longer reads the New York Times)."
500 $aCitations index: page 101.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 102-107).
505 0 $aNature -- Playground -- Father -- God -- Pietà -- Painting -- Movie -- Beauty -- Love -- Death.
520 $a"Bestselling author David Shields analyzed over a decade's worth of front-page war photographs from The New York Times and came to a shocking conclusion: the photo-editing process of the 'paper of record, ' by way of pretty, heroic, and lavishly aesthetic image selection, pulls the wool over the eyes of its readers; Shields forces us to face not only the the media's complicity in dubious and catastrophic military campaigns but our own as well. This powerful media mouthpiece, the mighty Times, far from being a check on governmental power, is in reality a massive amplifier for its dark forces by virtue of the way it aestheticizes warfare. Anyone baffled by the willful American involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan can't help but see in this book how eagerly and invariably the Times led the way in making the case for these wars through the manipulation of its visuals. Shields forces the reader to weigh the consequences of our own passivity in the face of these images' opiatic numbing. The photographs gathered in War Is Beautiful, often beautiful and always artful, are filters of reality rather than the documentary journalism they purport to be"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aWar photography$vPictorial works.
650 0 $aPhotojournalism$vPictorial works.
650 0 $aIraq War, 2003-2011$xPhotography$vPictorial works.
650 0 $aAfghan War, 2001-$xPhotography$vPictorial works.
650 7 $aWar photography.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01170549
655 7 $aPictorial works.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423874
650 7 $aPressfotografi.$2sao
650 7 $aIrakkriget 2003-$2sao
650 7 $aKriget i Afghanistan 2001-$2sao
700 1 $aHickey, Dave,$d1940-$ewriter of afterword.
730 0 $aNew York times.
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