{"title":"Ariella Azoulay","description":"\u003cp\u003eAriella Azoulay's works explore the intersections of photography, politics, and cultural history, challenging conventional perspectives on visual representation. Her writing delves into the complex relationships between images and power, inviting readers to reconsider the role of photographs in shaping social and civil narratives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thought-provoking analysis grounded in arts and culture, blending theory with critical inquiry. Through titles like \u003cem\u003eCollaboration\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Civil Contract of Photography\u003c\/em\u003e, Azoulay offers a nuanced examination of photography as a tool for both oppression and resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"collaboration-by-laura-wexler-9780500545331","title":"Collaboration","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA new, revolutionary history of photography from a stellar team of writers and thinkers that challenges all existing narratives by focusing on the complex collaborations between photographer and subject.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCollaboration\u003c\/em\u003e presents a groundbreaking and multifaceted history of photography which explores photography through the lens of collaboration, challenging the dominant narratives around photographic history and authorship. In a vast, collaborative effort led by five of the great thinkers and practitioners in photography that includes more than 550 photographs and over 80 text contributors, this book breaks apart photography's 'single creator' tradition by bringing to light tangible traces of collaboration—the various relationships, exchanges and interactions which occur between all participants in the event of photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book will provide the keys to understanding and decoding the complex politics of seeing. The conditions of collaboration in photography are explored through over 100 photography projects, divided into eight thematic chapters. The photographs from each project are presented non-hierarchically alongside quotes, testimonies, and short texts by guest contributors. These networks of texts and images provide perspective on a vast array of photographic themes, from Araki's provocative portraits of women to archival files from the Spanish Civil War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCollaboration\u003c\/em\u003e is not an ultimate account of what photography is, does, or means. Rather, the book is an inspiration for teaching and an open invitation to scholars, activists, photographers and others to practice always with and alongside others and participate actively in this engagement and enquiry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47423967297772,"sku":"9780500545331","price":145.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780500545331.jpg?v=1774769544"},{"product_id":"the-civil-contract-of-photography-by-ariella-azoulay-9781890951894","title":"The Civil Contract of Photography","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn argument that anyone can pursue political agency and resistance through photography, even those with flawed or nonexistent citizenship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this compelling work, Ariella Azoulay reconsiders the political and ethical status of photography. Describing the power relations that sustain and make possible photographic meanings, Azoulay argues that anyone—even a stateless person—who addresses others through photographs or is addressed by photographs can become a member of the citizenry of photography. The \u003cem\u003ecivil contract of photography\u003c\/em\u003e enables anyone to pursue political agency and resistance through photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePhotography, Azoulay insists, cannot be understood separately from the many catastrophes of recent history. The crucial arguments of her book concern two groups with flawed or nonexistent citizenship: the Palestinian noncitizens of Israel and women in Western societies. Azoulay analyzes Israeli press photographs of violent episodes in the Occupied Territories and interprets various photographs of women—from famous images by stop-motion photographer Eadweard Muybridge to photographs from Abu Ghraib prison.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAzoulay asks this question: under what legal, political, or cultural conditions does it become possible to see and to show disaster that befalls those who can claim only incomplete or nonexistent citizenship?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on such key texts in the history of modern citizenship as the \u003cem\u003eDeclaration of the Rights of Man\u003c\/em\u003e together with relevant work by Giorgio Agamben, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Susan Sontag, and Roland Barthes, Azoulay explores the visual field of catastrophe, injustice, and suffering in our time. Her book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the disasters of recent history—and the consequences of how these events and their victims have been represented.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47599267709164,"sku":"9781890951894","price":79.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781890951894-the-civil-contract-of-photography.jpg?v=1777974897"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/ariella-azoulay.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}