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Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
Visual Occupations: Violence and Visibility in a Conflict Zone
Duke University Press
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978-0-8223-7551-7
Publication date:
2015
Book Chapter
Visual Rights and the Prospect of Exchange: The Photographic Event Placed under Duress
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Published:April 2015
Chapter 4 returns to the question of the gaze as an apparatus of control, asking under what conditions of spectatorship, production, and distribution might photography become a means of intervention into, or manipulation of, the visual field that currently binds Israelis and Palestinians together under an extremely uneven distribution of visual rights. Centered on a comparative look at two photographic projects, Intimacy (2004), a photographic series by the Jerusalem-based Palestinian photographer Rula Halawani, and At the Checkpoint (2007), a photo exhibit/performance by the Ramallah-based Palestinian artist Khaled Jarrar, the chapter further engages in a critical dialogue with Ariella Azoulay’s conceptualization...
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