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

by David Shields

Book Overview

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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1576877590
• ISBN13: 9781576877593
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: powerHouse Books
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 2.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 11.5" x 9.1"