War is Beautiful - The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict

2019-06-11 History

Author : David Shields
Release : 2019-06-11
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis War is Beautiful - The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict by : David Shields

Download or read book War is Beautiful - The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict written by David Shields. This book was released on 2019-06-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author David Shields analyzed over a decade's worth of front-page war photographs fromTheNew York Timesand came to a shocking conclusion: the photo-editing process ofthe "paper of record,"by way of pretty, heroic, and lavishly aesthetic image selection, pullsthe woolover 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 mightyTimes, far from being a check on governmental power, is in reality a massive amplifier for its dark forces by virtue of the way it aestheticizeswarfare. Anyone baffled by the willful American involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan can't help but see in this book how eagerly and invariably theTimesled 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 inWar Is Beautiful, often beautiful and always artful, are filters of reality rather than the documentary journalism they purport to be.

Yes We Can

2008-12-09 Biography & Autobiography

Author :
Release : 2008-12-09
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Download or read book Yes We Can written by . This book was released on 2008-12-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Barack Obama's historic journey from the Senator of Illinois to President of the USA. Scout Tufankjian is the only independent photographer to have documented Obama's entire campaign all the way to the election night celebration in Chicago's Grant Park. Obama's grassroots journey has touched something profound in America and electrified record-breaking crowds. The historic results have been nothing short of a revolution in political strategy, communication and activism. This is the deepest, most personal portrait, captured in diverse, intimate imagery.

Flip-Side

2016-10-15

Author : James Franco
Release : 2016-10-15
Genre :
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Book Rating : 999/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Flip-Side written by James Franco. This book was released on 2016-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best-selling author David Shields, and multi-talented writer, actor and director James Franco team up to transform a conversation into a highly original study of celebrity. Flip-Side is a work of dialogue that explores the relationship between performance and persona, on the one hand, and underlying pain and trauma, on the other. The text is complimented by dozens of selfies of James and Lana.

Flesh Life

2006-09-01 Photography

Author : Joseph Rodriguez
Release : 2006-09-01
Genre : Photography
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Book Rating : 106/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Flesh Life written by Joseph Rodriguez. This book was released on 2006-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Spirit, flesh: in the end the same quest, born of a crumbling economy and identity. The single most apparent sign is the proliferation in prostitution, an 'outing' of what has always existed, but furtively. The government has officially admitted that it is impossible to rein in the sex trade; Mexico City is not busy busting working women and men, but formulating legal and health guidelines for sex-workers." -Ruben Martínez From Nezahualcoyotl, the largest working-class suburb on earth, to La Condesa, Mexico City's hipster hangout, putas and putos stroll the streets, cruising for johns and surviving on their wit, born out of true desperation. These men, women, and everyone in-between are sex-workers in a country where extramarital sex is considered a mortal sin, and, confoundingly, where they ply their trade without official reprisal. In Mexico, macho husbands consort with other men, and virgencitas are anything but. Joseph Rodríguez and Ruben Martínez confront these contradictions head-on in Flesh Life: Sex in Mexico City. In Rodríguez's series of startlingly intimate black-and-white photographs and Martínez' gripping text, we encounter a re-sexualized and re-spiritualized country in flux, embracing religious dogma while discarding taboos that once shrouded sex in a haze of artifice, euphemism, and history. Rodríguez's beautiful and brutally honest images suggest a culture in which spirit and flesh have always been inextricably intertwined.

Hair Wars

2007-11 Health & Fitness

Author : Johanna Lenander
Release : 2007-11
Genre : Health & Fitness
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Download or read book Hair Wars written by Johanna Lenander. This book was released on 2007-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remote controlled helicopters, an eight-foot wide hawk, a birthday cake, a working barbeque grill, a Bible - these are just a few of the jaw dropping hairstyle creations featured in Yellen's Hair Wars, taken at the touring American showcase of the same name. Combining advanced styling techniques, countless pounds of hair extensions and irrepressible imagination, these outrageous coiffures take the time-honoured tradition of African American hairstyling out of the beauty parlor and onto the runway.

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