A review by kateraed
War Is Beautiful: The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict* by David Shields

4.0

A modern day "Dulce et decorum est," in photographs, with the added layer of revealing the propaganda ties. I wish Shields had laid out his argument more thoroughly (give us side-by-sides between these photos and the Rockwell/movies/glamor shots they mimic; spell out the way that each photo, particularly, contributes to a theme as a whole and the practical implications of what that means on the battlefield when a complacent country absorbs these images), though I also value that Shields trusts his audience enough to simply define a theme and then give us the curated evidence.

Never before have I realized how deeply war and masculinism are tied. Shields' work has highlighted, for me, that both war and photojournalism are feminist issues.