A CIVIL CONTRACT OF PHOTOGRAPHY (PAPERBACK ED.)

In this groundbreaking work, Ariella Azoulay thoroughly revises our understanding of the ethical status of photography. It must, she insists, be understood in its inseparability from the many catastrophes of recent history. She argues that photography is a particu lar set of relations between individuals and the powers that govern them and, at the same time, a form of relations among equals tha t constrains that power. Anyone, even a stateless person, who addresses others through photographs or occupies the position of a pho tographs...[Read more]