Exploring radically new possibilities for contemporary photography by an internationally leading theorist
This book is the product of a unique collaboration between Israeli artist and philosopher Aim Deuelle Luski and visual culture theorist Ariella Azoulay. In their longstanding working relationship, they research how to theorize the structure of the contemporary scopic regime and open a space for its civil transformation. On this occasion, Azoulay interprets a particular series of cameras built by Deuelle Luski, along with photographs taken by these cameras. Unlike conventional cameras and their 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 shown to be based solely on principles of sovereignty and possession. Through and with Deuelle Luski's project Azoulay seeks to 'potentialize' the history of photography, that is, to recover long forgotten, un-materialized possibilities. The book contains 100 images and a conversation between the author and the artist.


Taal: eng
Aantal pagina's: 200
Verschijningsdatum: 22-01-2014
Verschijningsvorm: pocket