Civil Imagination: A Political Ontology of Photography/ Areilla Aisha Azoulay

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Azoulay, Areilla

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: UK; Verso; 2015Description: 288p; 23x15cmISBN:

9781784783037

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Summary: In Civil Imagination, Azoulay reconceptualizes photography not as a mere product (a static image) but as a practice—a relational event involving the photographer, the subject, and the spectator. She argues that photography has the potential to foster “civil knowledge,” meaning forms of address, responsibility, and shared existence that resist sovereign power. By shifting the focus from representation to civic engagement, she proposes that images can create new forms of solidarity and political imagination among people, especially across situations of exclusion or conflict.

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Book	Photography Gallery	Technology- Photography, Cinematography, Electronic Media	TR624-835 59.22 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		5974

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In Civil Imagination, Azoulay reconceptualizes photography not as a mere product (a static image) but as a practice—a relational event involving the photographer, the subject, and the spectator. She argues that photography has the potential to foster “civil knowledge,” meaning forms of address, responsibility, and shared existence that resist sovereign power. By shifting the focus from representation to civic engagement, she proposes that images can create new forms of solidarity and political imagination among people, especially across situations of exclusion or conflict.

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