LES ÉVÉNEMENTS
Political and ethical power of photography today
Monday 19 October 2009
at 19h30 |
Villa Gillet
Avec :
Ariella Azoulay | Fred Ritchin
Villa Gillet - 25 rue Chazière, 69004 Lyon
00 33 (0)4 78 27 02 48
How do images change our relationship to the world?
What is the impact of their use on how we live together and on politics?
Meeting hosted by Thomas Wieder, journalist at Le Monde des Livres, author of Les Sorcières de Hollywood – Chasse aux rouges et listes noires (Philippe Rey, 2006)
Ariella Azoulay teaches the visual arts and contemporary philosophy at the Bar Ilan University in Israel. Her latest work, The Civil Contract of Photography, constitutes a fascinating study of the political and ethical status of photography via a discussion of the disasters of contemporary history and the way in which these events and their victims have been presented. This is an unprecedented analysis of the link between photography and citizenship.
> The Civil Contract of Photography (Zone Books, 2008)
Fred Ritchin, professor of photography and imagery at New York University, is one of the most influential contemporary commentators on photography. In After Photography, he shows how the ‘digital revolution’ – from photographs of recent events taken by ordinary people on their mobile phones to the mass use of surveillance cameras – has fundamentally changed the way in which we perceive visual information and our whole conception of the world .
> After photography (Norton, 2008)
Villa Gillet - 25 rue Chazière, 69004 Lyon
00 33 (0)4 78 27 02 48
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