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

* War Is Beautiful: The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict* Ú PDF Download by * David Shields eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. War Is Beautiful: The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict* This book is beautiful, mostly. I heard the author interviewed on NPR and was intrigued. His thesis is that beautiful photos in the NY Times - front page in color - have helped to support wars. Although he focuses primarily on recent war in the Middle East, the brief text includes comments datin. As a collection of images it is beautiful. As an argument, no so much. I read this book with mixed feelings. I see part of what Shields says, that the artistry of the war photographs distracts from the

Author	:	David Shields
Rating	:	4.44 (646 Votes)
Asin	:	1576877590
Format Type	:	paperback
Number of Pages	:	112 Pages
Publish Date	:	2018-01-14
Language	:	English

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Neither are mine. Nothing real is fit to print, apparently. Shields has done just that. Challenges the indisputable authority of the paper by claiming The Times has sanctified, eroticized and glamorized warfare.—LENS CULTUREShields believes that the images the New York Times chooses set a tone for the rest of the media landscape, and that they can wreak havoc when it comes to an informed populace’s acceptance of the horrors of war.—HOPES & FEARS

Forthcoming are Flip-Side (powerHouse, 2016) and Other People (Knopf, 2017). His work has been translated into 20 languages. . David Shields is the internationally bestselling author of 20 books, including Reality Hunger (named one of the best books of 2010 by more than 30

This book is beautiful, mostly. I heard the author interviewed on NPR and was intrigued. His thesis is that beautiful photos in the NY Times - front page in color - have helped to support wars. Although he focuses primarily on recent war in the Middle East, the brief text includes comments datin. As a collection of images it is beautiful. As an argument, no so much. I read this book with mixed feelings. I see part of what Shields says, that the artistry of the war photographs distracts from the horror of war itself. (Note, all of the photos appeared in editions of the New York Times, and accompanied war news items.) At the sa. "Five Stars" according to Solange. Life Changing, Gorgeous. Read all the blurbs, and quotes to get the full value out of this book.

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