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The Civil Contract of Photography

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Availability:In StockContributor:Ariella Azoulay, Rela Mazali (Translator), Ruvik Danieli (Translator)Series:Zone BooksAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2012-12-18Pages:586
Language:EnglishPublisher:Zone BooksISBN-13:9781890951894ISBN-10:1890951897UPC:9781890951894Book Category:PhotographyBook Subcategory:History, Criticism, PhotojournalismSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.60 inchesWeight:1.8519Product ID:SC2GEA1J79

In this groundbreaking work, Ariella Azoulay thoroughly revises our understanding of the ethical status of photography. It must, she insists, be understood in its inseparability from the many catastrophes of recent history. She argues that photography is a particular set of relations between individuals and the powers that govern them and, at the same time, a form of relations among equals that constrains that power. Anyone, even a stateless person, who addresses others through photographs or occupies the position of a photograph's addressee, is or can become a member of the citizenry of photography.

The crucial arguments of the book concern two groups that have been rendered invisible by their state of exception: the Palestinian noncitizens of Israel and women in Western societies. Azoulay's leading question is: Under what legal, political, or cultural conditions does it become possible to see and show disaster that befalls those with flawed citizenship in a state of exception? The Civil Contract of Photography is an essential work for anyone seeking to understand the disasters of recent history and the consequences of how they and their victims are represented.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Zone BooksISBN-13:9781890951894ISBN-10:1890951897UPC:9781890951894Book Category:PhotographyBook Subcategory:History, Criticism, PhotojournalismSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.60 inchesWeight:1.8519Product ID:SC2GEA1J79

Ariella Azoulay teaches visual culture and contemporary philosophy at the Program for Culture and Interpretation, Bar Ilan University. She is the author of Once Upon A Time: Photography Following Walter Benjamin and Death's Showcase: The Power of Image in Contemporary Democracy (MIT Press, 2001).


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