The photograph is not just an image but an event, one in the longer sequence of a photographic moment. Challenging given definitions of photography and of the political, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay calls for us to use photographs of political violence, such as the colonial regime in Palestine, to envision the political relationships that made each photograph possible, and to be able to intervene in them. In this way, we can build our capacity for “civil imagination”: a way of seeing and imagining ourselves as part of the image rather than only as spectators.

Author: Ariella Aïsha Azoulay 
Year: 2024
Pages: 304
Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.25 in. 
Cover: Softcover
ISBN: 9781804292594
Language: English