The Civil Contract Of Photography

Author : Ariella Azoulay
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781935408376

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The Civil Contract of Photography by Ariella Azoulay Pdf

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.

Author : Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788735711

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Potential History by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay Pdf

A passionately urgent call for all of us to unlearn imperialism and repair the violent world we share, from one of our most compelling political theorists In this theoretical tour-de-force, renowned scholar Ariella Aïsha Azoulay calls on us to recognize the imperial foundations of knowledge and to refuse its strictures and its many violences. Azoulay argues that the institutions that make our world, from archives and museums to ideas of sovereignty and human rights to history itself, are all dependent on imperial modes of thinking. Imperialism has segmented populations into differentially governed groups, continually emphasized the possibility of progress while it tries to destroy what came before, and voraciously seeks out the new by sealing the past away in dusty archival boxes and the glass vitrines of museums. By practicing what she calls potential history, Azoulay argues that we can still refuse the original imperial violence that shattered communities, lives, and worlds, from native peoples in the Americas at the moment of conquest to the Congo ruled by Belgium's brutal King Léopold II, from dispossessed Palestinians in 1948 to displaced refugees in our own day. In Potential History, Azoulay travels alongside historical companions—an old Palestinian man who refused to leave his village in 1948, an anonymous woman in war-ravaged Berlin, looted objects and documents torn from their worlds and now housed in archives and museums—to chart the ways imperialism has sought to order time, space, and politics. Rather than looking for a new future, Azoulay calls upon us to rewind history and unlearn our imperial rights, to continue to refuse imperial violence by making present what was invented as “past” and making the repair of torn worlds the substance of politics.

Author : Elspeth H. Brown,Thy Phu
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780822377313

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Feeling Photography by Elspeth H. Brown,Thy Phu Pdf

This innovative collection demonstrates the profound effects of feeling on our experiences and understanding of photography. It includes essays on the tactile nature of photos, the relation of photography to sentiment and intimacy, and the ways that affect pervades the photographic archive. Concerns associated with the affective turn—intimacy, alterity, and ephemerality, as well as queerness, modernity, and loss—run through the essays. At the same time, the contributions are informed by developments in critical race theory, postcolonial studies, and feminist theory. As the contributors bring affect theory to bear on photography, some interpret the work of contemporary artists, such as Catherine Opie, Tammy Rae Carland, Christian Boltanski, Marcelo Brodsky, Zoe Leonard, and Rea Tajiri. Others look back, whether to the work of the American Pictorialist F. Holland Day or to the discontent masked by the smiles of black families posing for cartes de visite in a Kodak marketing campaign. With more than sixty photographs, including twenty in color, this collection changes how we see, think about, and feel photography, past and present. Contributors. Elizabeth Abel, Elspeth H. Brown, Kimberly Juanita Brown, Lisa Cartwright, Lily Cho, Ann Cvetkovich, David L. Eng, Marianne Hirsch, Thy Phu, Christopher Pinney, Marlis Schweitzer, Dana Seitler, Tanya Sheehan, Shawn Michelle Smith, Leo Spitzer, Diana Taylor

Author : Stephen Bull
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781405195843

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A Companion to Photography by Stephen Bull Pdf

"A Companion to Photography presents a contemporary approach to the subject, advancing the critical ideas that inform the study of photography in the 21st century. Features a collection of original, up-to-date essays relating to contemporary photography Introduces several new ideas that expand current photographic theory Combines essays by established and emerging writers, providing a dynamic and engaging discussion Essays are organized in thematic sections: photographic interpretation, markets, popular photography, documents, and fine art Seamlessly incorporates discussion of digital photography throughout"--

Author : M. Darsie Alexander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Photography
ISBN : UOM:39015063273356

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Singular Images by M. Darsie Alexander Pdf

The "Modern Day Matchmaker" presents a refreshingly optimistic and plainspoken dating guide to finding romance--both on- and off-line. Finding and keeping a mate has never been harder. New rules are needed to navigate the complicated and changing modern-love landscape. If someone wants to find "the one," what are the guidelines he or she needs to know, now that online dating and Google-searching a prospective love interest are the norm? Happily married for ten years, Paul Carrick Brunson is a husband, a father, and a rising star in the matchmaking world. In It's Complicated (But It Doesn't Have to Be), Brunson tackles relevant questions such as: Is marriage right for my personality type? Do the rules of chivalry still apply? How can I date more than one person without hurt feelings? What is the best mode of communication (text messages, phone, e-mail, etc.) for asking someone out? With an appealing mix of humor, candor, and real-world examples, It's Complicated (But It Doesn't Have to Be) is a breath of fresh air in the dating guide category, offering a message of eternal optimism from a man who believes in true love--and practices what he preaches.

Author : Ariella Azoulay
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789058679499

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Aïm Deüelle Lüski and Horizontal Photography by Ariella Azoulay Pdf

This book is the product of a unique collaboration between Israeli artist and philosopher Aïm Deüelle Lüski and visual culture theorist Ariella Azoulay. In their longstanding working relationship, they research how to theorize the structure of the contemporary scopic regime and open a space for its civil transformation.

Author : John Tagg
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780816642878

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The Disciplinary Frame by John Tagg Pdf

How do photographs gain their meaning and power? John Tagg claims that, to answer this question, we must look at the ways in which everything that frames photography - the discourse that surrounds it and the institutions that circulate it - determines what counts as truth.

Author : Ariella Azoulay
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0745331696

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From Palestine to Israel by Ariella Azoulay Pdf

In this carefully curated and beautifully presented photobook, Ariella Azoulay offers a new perspective on four crucial years in the history of Palestine/Israel.The book reconstructs the processes by which the Palestinian majority in Mandatory Palestine became a minority in Israel, while the Jewish minority established a new political entity in which it became a majority ruling a minority Palestinian population. By analyzing more than 200 photographs from that period, most of which were previously confined to Israeli state archives, Azoulay recounts the events and the stories that for years have been ignored or only partially acknowledged in Israel and the West. Including substantial analytical text, this book will give activists, scholars, and journalists a new perspective on the origins of the Palestine-Israel conflict.

Author : Ariella Azoulay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949
ISBN : 0986832685

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Different Ways Not to Say Deportation by Ariella Azoulay Pdf

This volume is a collection of drawings and captions for "unshowable" photographs taken in Palestine in 1947-50, gathered from the International Committee of the Red Cross archives in Geneva by the well-known author and cultural critic Ariella Azoulay, author of The Political Ontology of Photography and The Civil Contract of Photography.

Author : Susie Linfield
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226482514

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The Cruel Radiance by Susie Linfield Pdf

Susie Linfield addresses the issue of whether photographs depicting past scenes of violence & cruelty are voyeuristic, arguing that if we do not look & understand that we are seeing at people, rather than depersonalised acts of inhumanity, our hopes of curbing political violence today are probably limited.

Author : Errol Morris
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780143124252

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Believing Is Seeing by Errol Morris Pdf

Academy Award–winning director Errol Morris turns his eye to the nature of truth in photography In his inimitable style, Errol Morris untangles the mysteries behind an eclectic range of documentary photographs. With his keen sense of irony, skepticism, and humor, Morris shows how photographs can obscure as much as they reveal, and how what we see is often determined by our beliefs. Each essay in this book is part detective story, part philosophical meditation, presenting readers with a conundrum, and investigates the relationship between photographs and the real world they supposedly record. Believing Is Seeing is a highly original exploration of photography and perception, from one of America’s most provocative observers.

Author : Sharon Sliwinski
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-03
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0226762750

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Human Rights In Camera by Sharon Sliwinski Pdf

From the fundamental rights proclaimed in the American and French declarations of independence to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Hannah Arendt’s furious critiques, the definition of what it means to be human has been hotly debated. But the history of human rights—and their abuses—is also a richly illustrated one. Following this picture trail, Human Rights In Camera takes an innovative approach by examining the visual images that have accompanied human rights struggles and the passionate responses people have had to them. Sharon Sliwinski considers a series of historical events, including the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and the Holocaust, to illustrate that universal human rights have come to be imagined through aesthetic experience. The circulation of images of distant events, she argues, forms a virtual community between spectators and generates a sense of shared humanity. Joining a growing body of scholarship about the cultural forces at work in the construction of human rights, Human Rights In Camera is a novel take on this potent political ideal.

Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 1784876011

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Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes Pdf

Barthes investigation into the meaning of photographs is a seminal work of twentieth-century critical theory. This is a special Vintage Design Edition, with fold-out cover and stunning photography throughout. Examining themes of presence and absence, these reflections on photography begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs - their content, their pull on the viewer, their intimacy. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind. He was grieving for his mother at the time of writing. Strikingly personal, yet one of the most important early academic works on photography, Camera Lucida remains essential reading for anyone interested in the power of images. 'Effortlessly, as if in passing, his reflections on photography raise questions and doubts which will permanently affect the vision of the reader' Guardian

Author : Harry Benson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131730140

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R.F.K. by Harry Benson Pdf

Photography.

Author : Marie-Monique Robin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Photography
ISBN : 3822865125

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The Photos of the Century by Marie-Monique Robin Pdf