How does a photograph become a news image? An ethnography of the labor behind international news images,<I> Image Brokers </I>ruptures the self-evidence of the journalistic photograph by revealing the many factors determining how news audiences are shown people, events, and the world. News images, Zeynep Gürsel argues, function as formative fictions – fictional insofar as these images are constructed and culturally mediated, and formative...
