War is beautiful : the New York Times pictorial guide to the glamour of armed conflict*
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Author
Contributors
Hickey, Dave, 1940-2021 writer of afterword.
Published
Brooklyn, New York : powerHouse Books, 2015.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9781576877593, 1576877590
Physical Desc
111 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 30 cm
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Published
Brooklyn, New York : powerHouse Books, 2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9781576877593, 1576877590
Notes
General Note
"*(in which the author explains why he no longer reads the New York Times)."
General Note
Citations index: page 101.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 102-107).
Description
"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."--,Provided by publisher
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Shields, D., & Hickey, D. (2015). War is beautiful: the New York Times pictorial guide to the glamour of armed conflict* (First edition.). powerHouse Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Shields, David, 1956- and Dave Hickey. 2015. War Is Beautiful: The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict*. powerHouse Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Shields, David, 1956- and Dave Hickey. War Is Beautiful: The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict* powerHouse Books, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Shields, David, and Dave Hickey. War Is Beautiful: The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict* First edition., powerHouse Books, 2015.
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