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University of Paris; Tel Aviv University.
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Civil Imagination: A Political Ontology of Photography by Ariella Azoulay (2015-10-13)
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Civil Imagination: A Political Ontology of Photography
(Understanding photography is more than a matter of assess...)
Understanding photography is more than a matter of assessing photographs, writes Ariella Azoulay. The photograph is merely one event in a sequence that constitutes photography and which always involves an actual or potential spectator in the relationship between the photographer and the individual portrayed. The shift in focus from product to practice, outlined in Civil Imagination, brings to light the way images can both reinforce and resist the oppressive reality foisted upon the people depicted. Through photography, Civil Imagination seeks out relations of partnership, solidarity, and sharing that come into being at the expense of sovereign powers that threaten to destroy them. Azoulay argues that the “civil” must be distinguished from the “political” as the interest that citizens have in themselves, in others, in their shared forms of coexistence, as well as in the world they create and transform. Azoulay’s book sketches out a new horizon of civil living for citizens as well as subjects denied citizenship—inevitable partners in a reality they are invited to imagine anew and to reconstruct. Beautifully produced with many illustrations, Civil Imagination is a provocative argument for photography as a civic practice capable of reclaiming civil power.
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Ariella Azoulay: Civil Imagination : A Political Ontology of Photography (Hardcover); 2012 Edition
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Ariella Azoulay
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Azoulay has degrees from Université Paris VIII, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Tel Aviv University. In 1999 she began teaching at Bar-Ilan University. In 2010 Azoulay was denied tenure at Bar-Ilan, a move regarded by some colleagues and commentators as politically motivated.
In 2010 she was the Gladstein Visiting Professor at the Human Rights Center of the University of Connecticut.
In 2011 she was Leverhulme Research Professor at Durham University, and she is currently Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University"s Watson Institute for International Studies.
Works
book
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Civil Imagination: A Political Ontology of Photography
(Understanding photography is more than a matter of assess...)
- Civil Imagination: A Political Ontology of Photography by Ariella Azoulay (2015-10-13)
- Ariella Azoulay: Civil Imagination : A Political Ontology of Photography (Hardcover); 2012 Edition
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Civil Imagination: A Political Ontology of Photography
