About to Die: How News Images Move the Public
ISBN-13:
9780199752133
ISBN-10:
0199752133
Edition:
1
Author:
Barbie Zelizer
Publication date:
2010
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Format:
Hardcover
432 pages
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Book details
ISBN-13:
9780199752133
ISBN-10:
0199752133
Edition:
1
Author:
Barbie Zelizer
Publication date:
2010
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Format:
Hardcover
432 pages
Summary
About to Die: How News Images Move the Public (ISBN-13: 9780199752133 and ISBN-10: 0199752133), written by authors
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Due to its ability to freeze a moment in time, the photo is a uniquely powerful device for ordering and understanding the world. But when an image depicts complex, ambiguous, or controversial events--terrorist attacks, wars, political assassinations--its ability to influence perception can prove deeply unsettling. Are we really seeing the world "as it is" or is the image a fabrication or projection? How do a photo's content and form shape a viewer's impressions? What do such images contribute to historical memory? About to Die focuses on one emotionally charged category of news photograph--depictions of individuals who are facing imminent death--as a prism for addressing such vital questions. Tracking events as wide-ranging as the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, the Holocaust, the Vietnam War, and 9/11, Barbie Zelizer demonstrates that modes of journalistic depiction and the power of the image are immense cultural forces that are still far from understood. Through a survey of a century of photojournalism, including close analysis of over sixty photos, About to Die provides a framework and vocabulary for understanding the news imagery that so profoundly shapes our view of the world.
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