The Civil Contract of Photography

Ariella Azoulay

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Author(s)

Ariella Azoulay

Publication, year

New York : Zone Books, 2008

Scope

585 Pages, illustrated, 24 cm.

ISBN

9781890951887

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Ariella Azoulay provides a rethinking of the political and ethical status of photography. This book is about two groups whose vulnerability and flawed citizenship have been rendered invisible due to their state of exception: the Palestinian noncitizens of Israel and women in Western societies. One of her leading questions is the following: under what legal, political or cultural conditions does it become possible to see and to show disaster that befalls those flawed citizens in states of exception?

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Keywords

fotografie / photography

Location

Cabinet 12A - 4: Documentaire Fotografie ; Journalistiek / Documentary Photography ; Journalism

Remarks

Incl. bibliographical references and Index.