Ariella Azoulay

Ariella Azoulay (אריאלה אזולאי‎; 21 February 1962, Tel Aviv) is an author, art curator, filmmaker, and theorist of photography and visual culture. She is Professor of Modern Culture and Media and the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University.

Works

Books

• Imun le-omanut : biḳoret ha-kalkalah ha-muzeʼalit [TRAining for ART: Critique of Museal Economy], Tel Aviv: Hakibutz Hameuchad, and The Porter Institute, Tel Aviv University, 1999. (Hebrew)

• Ekh zeh nirʼeh lekha? 25 siḥot, 44 tatslumim [How Does it Look to You?], Tel Aviv: Bavel, 2000, 270 pp. (Hebrew)

• Death's Showcase: The Power of Image in Contemporary Democracy, trans. Ruvik Danieli, MIT Press, 2001, x+303 pp. Collection of works previously published chiefly in Hebrew. (English)

• with Adi Ophir, Yamiym raʻiym: beyn ʻaswn lʼwṭwpyah [Bad Days: Between Disaster and Utopia], Tel Aviv: Resling, 2004, 207 pp. (Hebrew)

• Hayoh hayah paʻam: ṣiylwm bʻiqbwt Walṭer Binyamiyn [Once Upon a Time: Photography Following Walter Benjamin], Ramat-Gan: Bar Ilan University Press, 2006. (Hebrew)

• ha-Amanah ha-ezraḥit shel ha-tsilum, Tel Aviv: Resling, 2006, 515 pp. (Hebrew)
  • The Civil Contract of Photography, Zone Books, 2008. Leshem & Wright (CRIQ). (English)

• Maʻaśeh medinah: hisṭoryah metsulemet shel ha-Kibush 1967-2007 [Act of State: Photographic History of the Israeli Rule in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007], Etgar, 2008, 611 pp. (Hebrew)
  • Atto di Stato: Palestina-Israele, 1967-2007: storia fotografica dell'occupazione, trans. Maria Nadotti, Milan: Bruno Mondadori, 2008, 325 pp. (Italian)

• with Adi Ophir, Mishṭar zeh she-eno eḥad: kibush ṿe-demoḳraṭyah ben ha-yam la-nahar, 1967- [This Regime Which Is Not One], Tel Aviv: Resling, 2008. (Hebrew)
  • The One-State Condition: Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine, Stanford University Press, 2012, 328 pp. [1] (English)
  • Niẓām laysa wāḥidan: al-iḥtilāl wa-al-dīmuqrāṭīyah bayna al-baḥr wa-al-nahr (1967-), trans. Nabīl al-Ṣāliḥ, Rām Allāh: Madār, al-Markaz al-Filasṭīnī lil-Dirāsāt al-Isrāʼīlīyah, 2012, 430 pp. (Arabic)

• Alimut mekhonenet, 1947-1950: geneʼalogyah ḥazutit shel mishṭar ṿa-hafikhat ha-ason le-'ason mi-neḳudat mabaṭam' [Constituent Violence 1947-1950], Tel Aviv: Resling, 2009. (Hebrew)
  • From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950, Pluto Press, 2011. (English)

• Dimyon ezraḥi, Tel Aviv: Resling, 2010, 237 pp. (Hebrew)
  • Civil Imagination: The Political Ontology of Photography, London: Verso, 2012. (English)
  • Civil imagination: ontologia politica della fotografia, Milan: Postmedia, 2018, 271 pp. (Italian)

• Aïm Deüelle Lüski: imatges residuals: fotografia documental en temps obscurs, Barcelona: Ayuntamiento de Barcelona, 2012. (Catalan)
  • Aïm Deüelle Lüski and Horizontal Photography, trans. Tal Haran, Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2013, 261 pp. (English)
  • Ḥayim Deʻuʼel Lusḳi, tsilum ofḳi, Tel Aviv: Resling, 2016. (Hebrew)

• Historia potencial y otros ensayos, México: Conaculta, 2014, 123 pp. Collection of essays. [2] (Spanish)

• with Miki Kratsman, The Resolution of The Suspect, Santa Fe: Radius Books/Peabody Museum Press, 2015, 144 pp. (English)

• Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism, London: Verso, 2019, 656 pp. (English)

Essays

• "What is a photograph? What is photography?", Philosophy of Photography 1:1, 2010, pp 9-13. (English)
• "Photography - The ontological question", Mafte’akh 2e, 2011, pp 65-80. (English)
• "Outside The Political Philosophy Tradition and Still Inside Tradition: Two Traditions of Political Philosophy", Constellations 18:1, 2011, pp 91-105. (English)
• "Archive", trans. Tal Haran, in Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon, 2012. (English)
• more

Films

• A Sign from Heaven, 1999.
• The Angel of History, 2000.
• The Food Chain, 2004, part 2. [3]
• I Also Dwell Among Your Own People: Conversations with Azmi Bishara, 2005, 50 min.
• At Nightfall, 2005.
• Civil Alliance, Palestine, 47-48, 2012.
• Un-Documented: Unlearning Imperial Plunder by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, 2020, 35 min. [4]

Links

• Website
• Youtube
• Twitter
• Revolution Is a Language, lecture, summer 2012
• Profile on Brown U
• Profile on Ban-Ilan University (archived)
• Wikipedia