Picture Perfect

• Rob

  Member

  January 23, 2008 at 10:31 am

  Picture Perfect: Life in the Age of the Photo Op – New Ed. by Kiku Adatto
  Princeton University Press, June 2008.
  ISBN 978-0-691-12440-7

  The power of image-making in a world of photo ops and Photoshop

  We say that the camera doesn’t lie, but we also know that photographs
  can distort and deceive. In Picture Perfect, Kiku Adatto brilliantly examines
  the use and abuse of images today – and the increasingly blurred boundaries
  between news and entertainment, the real and the fake, the persons and the
  pose…

  …We continue to believe in the camera’s documentary promise – and to be
  enthralled, moved, provoked, and manipulated by images as by little else.
  From the potent pictures of the Iraq war to the battle for control of the picture
  in political campaigns, Picture Perfect is an incisive and up-to-date look at the
  unparalleled impact of images on our lives.

  Rob.