It’s hard to deny, as you leaf through the photos in David Shields's "War is Beautiful," that they do indeed deliberately aestheticize their subjects, and hence anaesthetize the viewer; these are glamour pictures to be admired, rather than documentary images that give immediacy to violence and horror. The accusation is that the New York Times does everything to make war glamorous and, in some way, reassuring. Yet this transformation of violence into beauty is hardly the reserve of the Times.
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