This book is the product of a unique collaboration between the Israeli artist and philosopher Aim Deuelle Luski and Ariella Azoulay. In their long-standing working relationship, they research how to theorize the structure of the contemporary scopic regime and to open a space for its civil transformation. On this occasion, Azoulay interprets a unique series of cameras built by Deuelle Luski, along with photographs taken by these cameras. Unlike conventional, vertical photography, Deuelle Luski's cameras seek to generate new sets of relations between the camera and the world. Azoulay's text unfolds four different short histories of problems in photography, each of which deconstructs what otherwise might appear as a coherent photographic regime, yet which is based solely on principles of sovereignty and possession. Through and with Deuelle Luski's project Azoulay seeks to potentialize the history of photography, to recover long-forgotten, unmaterialized possibilities. The book contains one hundred images and a conversation between the author and the artist.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Leuven University Press
ISBN-10
9058679497
ISBN-13
9789058679499
eBay Product ID (ePID)
148839563
Product Key Features
Author
Ariella Azoulay
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Photography
Type
Textbook
Dimensions
Weight
714g
Height
239mm
Width
160mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Leuven
Spine
15mm
Series Part/Volume Number
16
Series Title
Lieven Gevaert Series
Content Note
155, 56 Colour Illustrations, 99 Black & White Illustrations
Author Biography
Ariella Azoulay is an Israeli art curator, film-maker and theorist of photography and visual culture. She is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University and former Director of the Photo-Lexic Research Group at the Minerva Humanities Center, Tel Aviv University.