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PublisherVerso Books

ISBN-101804292591

ISBN-139781804292594

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Book TitleCivil Imagination : a Political Ontology of Photography

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicArt & Politics, Criticism & Theory, General, Criticism

Publication Year2024

IllustratorYes

GenreArt, Photography

AuthorAriella Aïsha Azoulay

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight10 oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"This remarkable book enhances Ariella Azoulay's position as the most compelling theorist of photography writing today. Photography, she argues, must be understood as a collective event in which vision, speech and action are intertwined and inseparable from ongoing global struggles between sovereign violence and civil society." --Jonathan Crary, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory, Columbia University "This book is a major intervention in the field of political philosophy, visual cultures, photography and architecture. The new ontology of photography developed by Azoulay builds upon, but also decisively challenges, articulated relations between the aesthetic and the political from Kant through Benjamin, Arendt and Rancière. Here, Azoulay uses her theory to suggest an alternative politics based on the re-reading and reinterpretation of photographs of the Nakba in 1948 and of the architecture of the Israeli occupation since 1967. Civil Imagination is nothing less than a proposal for a new form of politics now made ever more relevant throughout the Middle East." --Eyal Weizman, author of Hollow Land and Least of All Possible Evils "Takes on the state of our contemporary visual culture and takes aim at the many received ideas that march under the banner of 'art and politics.'" -- The Brooklyn Rail "Both an extremely demanding text that attempts a new articulation of the category of the 'civil' and a sophisticated photographic essay ... The result here is a powerful index of catastrophe and a meditation on the effects on both Israeli and Palestinian of an insidious and coercive colonial ideology." --John Douglas Millar, Art Monthly " Civil Imagination acts as a necessary yet cruel reminder that an uncritical relationship with the social idea of photography could easily determine whose life is not worthy of living." --Gil Pasternak Selection in Vogue 's "Visual Literacy: A Critical Library," 2022.

Dewey Decimal770.1

Table Of ContentList of Figures Introduction to the Second Edition one What Is Photography? two Rethinking the Political three The Photograph as a Source of Civil Knowledge four Civil Uses of Photography five "He Is My Ancestor"--Not a Museum's Asset Epilogue : The Right Not to Be a Perpetrator Notes Bibliography Index

Synopsis"This remarkable book enhances Ariella Azoulay's position as the most compelling theorist of photography writing today." -Jonathan Crary, author of Scorched Earth A groundbreaking work on the power of photography as a vehicle for civil protest 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.

LC Classification NumberTR187.A98313 2024