This volume is a collection of drawings and captions for "unshowable" photographs taken in Palestine in 1947-50, gathered from the International Committee of the Red Cross archives in Geneva by the well-known author and cultural critic Ariella Azoulay, author of "The Political Ontology of Photograph[...]

In this carefully curated and beautifully presented photobook, Ariella Azoulay offers a new perspective on four crucial years in the history of Palestine/Israel. The book reconstructs the processes by which the Palestinian majority in Mandatory Palestine became a minority in Israel, while the Jewis[...]

Photography, writes Ariella Azoulay in Civil Imagination, is an event and an encounter, irreducible to its end product: the photograph. This shift in focus to the practice of producing photographs (the "Copernican Revolution" in studying photography) brings to light how images can both reinforce and[...]