International Photojournalism Industry - Cultural Production and the Making and Selling of News Pictures

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.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. The Production Process I: From Story to Product 3. The Production Process II: From Product to Story 4. An Analysis of Significant Events Conclusion

About the author

Jonathan Ilan is Lecturer in the School of Communication at Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Ilan, Jonathan (Bar-Ilan University Ilan, Ilan Jonathan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9780367733940
• ISBN: 978-0-367-73394-0
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; Photography & photographs, Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, PHOTOGRAPHY / Photojournalism, Press & journalism, News media and journalism, Media studies: Journalism, Photography and photographs