An edition of War is beautiful (2015)

War is beautiful

the New York Times pictorial guide to the glamour of armed conflict*

First edition.
War is beautiful
David Shields, David Shields
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December 20, 2022 | History
An edition of War is beautiful (2015)

War is beautiful

the New York Times pictorial guide to the glamour of armed conflict*

First edition.

"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."--

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Publisher
powerHouse Books
Language
English
Pages
111

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Edition Notes

"*(in which the author explains why he no longer reads the New York Times)."

Citations: page 101.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 102-107).

Other Titles
New York times.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
779.9355
Library of Congress
TR820.6 .S55 2015, PS3569.H4834

The Physical Object

Pagination
111 pages
Number of pages
111

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27195914M
ISBN 10
1576877590
ISBN 13
9781576877593
LCCN
2015940384
OCLC/WorldCat
900594373

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