Civil Imagination A Political Ontology of Photography

Name: Civil Imagination A Political Ontology of Photography
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ISBN: 9781844677535

ISBN-10: 1844677532

ISBN-13: 9781844677535

Edition: 2012

Authors: Ariella Aï¿½sha Azoulay

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Photography, writes Ariella Azoulay in Civil Imagination, is an event and encounter, irreducible to its end product: the photograph. This shift in focus to the practice of producing photographs (the âCopernican Revolutionâ in studying photography) brings to light how images can both reinforce and resist power regimes. Azoulay engages with Arendt and Benjamin, arguing that art-world concerns regarding authorship, intention and framework should be replaced with a discussion of the agency of subjects and viewers, the political delimitation of what can be seen, and where the imagination can break through political boundaries.Showing how photographs from the occupied territories of Gaza and…

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List price: $31.50
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 8/21/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.47" wide x 9.46" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



List of Figures


Introduction



What Is Photography?



Rethinking the Political



The Photograph as a Source of Civil Knowledge



Civil Uses of Photography


Epilogue: The Right Not to Be a Perpetrator


Notes


Bibliography


Index