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The international photojournalism industry : cultural production and the making and selling of news pictures /​ Jonathan Ilan.

By: Material type: TextTextProducer: New York : Routledge, 2019Description: xii, 235 pages : illustrations, black and white photographs ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781138897588
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Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction The Methods Some Limitations Ethnography for Some, a Problem for Others A Political Economy from Below or Cultural Studies from Above? Cultural Production and the Industries of Culture Commercial Photography Production News Production Ethnographies and International News Production Producing Pictures, Making News, and How this Book Works 2.The Production Process I: From Story to Product The Story The Photography The Equipment The Fieldwork A Final Touch before Take-Off The Product The Local Office 3.The Production Process II: From Product to Story Final Stop (I): The Global Pictures Desk in Singapore and Sales The Global Pictures Desk The Magazine Desk The Keyword Team Global Graphics Pictures Administration Sales Final Stop (II): The Client's End, The Case of The Guardian The International Desk: How Well Did We Do? Contents note continued: 4.An Analysis of Significant Events and their Coverage First Event: Israeli Artillery Base, November 2005 First Event: An Analysis Second Event: Bombing near Tulkarem, December 2005 Second Event: An Analysis Third Event: The Funeral of an Israeli officer, December 2005 Third Event: An Analysis Fourth Event: Carrots Picking Near Nahal Oz, May 2006 Fourth Event: An Analysis Conclusion Who's Dominating the International Photojournalism Industry? New Media, Old (and New) Rivalries Serving News from the Top of the World What Has Changed in the Process A Few Concluding Remarks: A Closure that Offers Some Openings.
Summary: Summary: How are events turned into news pictures that define them for the audience? How do events become commodified into pictures that both capture them and reiterate the values of the agencies that sell them? This book looks at every stage of the production of news photographs as they move to and from the ground and are sold around the world. Based on extensive fieldwork at a leading international news agency that includes participant observation with photographers in the field, at the agency's local and global picture desks in Israel, Singapore, and the UK, in-depth interviews with pictures professionals, and observations and in-depth interviews at The Guardian's picture desk in London, the findings in this book point to a wide cultural production infrastructure hidden from - and yet also nurtured and thus very much determined by - the consumer's eye.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction The Methods Some Limitations Ethnography for Some, a Problem for Others A Political Economy from Below or Cultural Studies from Above? Cultural Production and the Industries of Culture Commercial Photography Production News Production Ethnographies and International News Production Producing Pictures, Making News, and How this Book Works 2.The Production Process I: From Story to Product The Story The Photography The Equipment The Fieldwork A Final Touch before Take-Off The Product The Local Office 3.The Production Process II: From Product to Story Final Stop (I): The Global Pictures Desk in Singapore and Sales The Global Pictures Desk The Magazine Desk The Keyword Team Global Graphics Pictures Administration Sales Final Stop (II): The Client's End, The Case of The Guardian The International Desk: How Well Did We Do? Contents note continued: 4.An Analysis of Significant Events and their Coverage First Event: Israeli Artillery Base, November 2005 First Event: An Analysis Second Event: Bombing near Tulkarem, December 2005 Second Event: An Analysis Third Event: The Funeral of an Israeli officer, December 2005 Third Event: An Analysis Fourth Event: Carrots Picking Near Nahal Oz, May 2006 Fourth Event: An Analysis Conclusion Who's Dominating the International Photojournalism Industry? New Media, Old (and New) Rivalries Serving News from the Top of the World What Has Changed in the Process A Few Concluding Remarks: A Closure that Offers Some Openings.

Summary: How are events turned into news pictures that define them for the audience? How do events become commodified into pictures that both capture them and reiterate the values of the agencies that sell them? This book looks at every stage of the production of news photographs as they move to and from the ground and are sold around the world. Based on extensive fieldwork at a leading international news agency that includes participant observation with photographers in the field, at the agency's local and global picture desks in Israel, Singapore, and the UK, in-depth interviews with pictures professionals, and observations and in-depth interviews at The Guardian's picture desk in London, the findings in this book point to a wide cultural production infrastructure hidden from - and yet also nurtured and thus very much determined by - the consumer's eye.