Ariella Azoulay

The Civil Contract of Photography

Buch

In this groundbreaking work, Ariella Azoulay provides a compelling rethinking of the political and ethical status of photography. In her extraordinary account of the civil contract of photography, she thoroughly revises our understanding of the power relations that sustain and make possible photographic meanings. Photography, she insists, must be thought of and understood in its inseparability from the many catastrophes of recent history. Azoulay argues that photography is a particular set of relations between individuals to the power that governs them, and, at the same time, a form of relations among equal individuals that constrains this po… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-1-890951-89-4
EAN: 9781890951894
Produktnummer: 14028749
Verlag: University Presses
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 586 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm
Abbildungen: 8 color + 100 b/w illus.

Über den Autor

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, winner of the 2002 Infinity Award for Writing presented by the International Center for Photography for excellence in the field of photography (MIT Press, 2001).