{"product_id":"civil-imagination-paperback","title":"Civil Imagination (Paperback)","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"This remarkable book enhances Ariella Azoulay’s position as the most compelling theorist of photography writing today.\"\u003cbr\u003e–Jonathan Crary, author of \u003ci\u003eScorched Earth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA groundbreaking work on the power of photography as a vehicle for civil protest\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnderstanding photography is more than a matter of assessing photographs, writes Ariella Azoulay. The photograph is merely one event in a sequence that constitutes photography and which always involves an actual or potential spectator in the relationship between the photographer and the individual portrayed. The shift in focus from product to practice, outlined in \u003ci\u003eCivil Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e, brings to light the way images can both reinforce and resist the oppressive reality foisted upon the people depicted.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough photography, \u003ci\u003eCivil Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e seeks out relations of partnership, solidarity, and sharing that come into being at the expense of sovereign powers that threaten to destroy them. Azoulay argues that the “civil” must be distinguished from the “political” as the interest that citizens have in themselves, in others, in their shared forms of coexistence, as well as in the world they create and transform. Azoulay’s book sketches out a new horizon of civil living for citizens as well as subjects denied citizenship—inevitable partners in a reality they are invited to imagine anew and to reconstruct.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeautifully produced with many illustrations, \u003ci\u003eCivil Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e is a provocative argument for photography as a civic practice capable of reclaiming civil power.","brand":"Azoulay, Ariella Aisha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52337271243026,"sku":"9781804292594","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0270\/9238\/5846\/files\/10940243482830.jpg?v=1780438919","url":"https:\/\/hbswarehousesale.com\/products\/civil-imagination-paperback","provider":"Harvard Book Store Warehouse Sale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}