Image Brokers: Visualizing World News in the Age of Digital Circulation

How does a photograph become a news image? An ethnography of the labor behind international news images, Image Brokers 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 because their public presence and circulation have real con...