Zeynep Gursel

Zeynep Gursel

Type
Dissertation Fellow
Department
Anthropology
2005-06

The Image Industry: The Work of International News Photographs in the Age of Digital Reproduction is the title of Zeynep Gursel’s dissertation. In this wideranging study, Gursel, a Ph.D. candidate in the Anthropology Department, looks at the production, distribution, and circulation of international news photographs. Paying special attention to the way news agencies limit the channels from which they receive images, Gursel documents the network through which these photographs move. In so doing, she is able to make explicit the role of news photographs in shaping our image of the world at large.