Image Brokers

Visualizing World News in the Age of Digital Circulation

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Anthropology
Cover of the book Image Brokers by Zeynep Devrim Gursel, University of California Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Zeynep Devrim Gursel ISBN: 9780520961616
Publisher: University of California Press Publication: April 12, 2016
Imprint: University of California Press Language: English
Author: Zeynep Devrim Gursel
ISBN: 9780520961616
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication: April 12, 2016
Imprint: University of California Press
Language: English

How does a photograph become a news image? An ethnography of the labor behind international news images,* Image Brokers *ruptures the self-evidence of the journalistic photograph by revealing the many factors determining how news audiences are shown people, events, and the world. News images, Zeynep Gürsel argues, function as formative fictions – fictional insofar as these images are constructed and culturally mediated, and formative because their public presence and circulation have real consequences in the world. 

Set against the backdrop of the War on Terror and based on fieldwork conducted at photojournalism’s centers of power, Image Brokers offers an intimate look at an industry in crisis. At the turn of the 21st century, image brokers—the people who manage the distribution and restriction of news images—found the core technologies of their craft, the status of images, and their own professional standing all changing rapidly with the digitalization of the infrastructures of representation. From corporate sales meetings to wire service desks, newsrooms to photography workshops and festivals, Image Brokers investigates how news images are produced and how worldviews are reproduced in the process.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

How does a photograph become a news image? An ethnography of the labor behind international news images,* Image Brokers *ruptures the self-evidence of the journalistic photograph by revealing the many factors determining how news audiences are shown people, events, and the world. News images, Zeynep Gürsel argues, function as formative fictions – fictional insofar as these images are constructed and culturally mediated, and formative because their public presence and circulation have real consequences in the world. 

Set against the backdrop of the War on Terror and based on fieldwork conducted at photojournalism’s centers of power, Image Brokers offers an intimate look at an industry in crisis. At the turn of the 21st century, image brokers—the people who manage the distribution and restriction of news images—found the core technologies of their craft, the status of images, and their own professional standing all changing rapidly with the digitalization of the infrastructures of representation. From corporate sales meetings to wire service desks, newsrooms to photography workshops and festivals, Image Brokers investigates how news images are produced and how worldviews are reproduced in the process.

More books from University of California Press

Cover of the book An Archive of Hope by Zeynep Devrim Gursel
Cover of the book The Maternal Factor by Zeynep Devrim Gursel
Cover of the book Struggle and Survival in Palestine/Israel by Zeynep Devrim Gursel
Cover of the book Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies by Zeynep Devrim Gursel
Cover of the book Argentina's Missing Bones by Zeynep Devrim Gursel
Cover of the book Contested Illnesses by Zeynep Devrim Gursel
Cover of the book Listening as Spiritual Practice in Early Modern Italy by Zeynep Devrim Gursel
Cover of the book A People's Guide to Los Angeles by Zeynep Devrim Gursel
Cover of the book The Hakka Cookbook by Zeynep Devrim Gursel
Cover of the book So How's the Family? by Zeynep Devrim Gursel
Cover of the book Jacked Up and Unjust by Zeynep Devrim Gursel
Cover of the book The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley by Zeynep Devrim Gursel
Cover of the book The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine by Zeynep Devrim Gursel
Cover of the book From Village to City by Zeynep Devrim Gursel
Cover of the book Jazz Matters by Zeynep Devrim Gursel
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy