[NEW BOOK] The International Photojournalism Industry: Cultural Production and the Making and Selling of News Pictures

Hello everyone,

My book “The International Photojournalism Industry: Cultural Production
and the Making and Selling of News Pictures” is now out!

The book is pitched to scholars, graduates and advanced undergraduates, but
also to a specialist audience. It would be great for undergraduate classes
in cultural studies, communications, media and business studies, and to
various photography and marketing degrees. And it is also suitable for
various graduate programs in media, globalization, and international
journalism, and to journalism and photography professional programs.

*Description*
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.

*Purchase*
Order directly from the Routledge site here (hardback, or as ebook with a
10% discount)

https://www.routledge.com/The-International-Photojournalism-Industry-Cultural-Production-and-the/Ilan/p/book/9781138897588

Or through Amazon here:

https://www.amazon.com/International-Photojournalism-Industry-Production-Internationalizing/dp/1138897582/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1535867940&sr=8-1&keywords=the+international+photojournalism+industry&dpID=517-t0W1IML&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch





Sincerely,

Jonathan Ilan, PhD

Lecturer, School of Communication

Bar Ilan University

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