Every day, as I leaf through the paper, looking out at me from its - TopicsExpress



          

Every day, as I leaf through the paper, looking out at me from its various pages are faces of Palestinians exposed to the rule of Israeli occupation. Why are these men, women, children, and families looking at me? Why have they agreed to be photographed so as to look at me? At whom, precisely, did they seek to look - was it truly at me? And why? Does their use of photography express a civic skill that they possess? What am I supposed to do with their look? What is the foundation of the gaze I might turn back to toward them? Is it my gaze alone, or is their demand directed toward the civil position I occupy? What happens to my citizenship in its encounter with this look? What happens to it in this encounter with their catastrophe, knowing that they are more vulnerable than I to catastrophe? - (Israeli Photography theorist) Areilla Azoulay, The Civil Contract of Photography, pp.17-18
Posted on: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 21:14:45 +0000

Trending Topics



Recently Viewed Topics




© 2015