|
|
|
|
|
The Routledge
Companion to Global
Photographies
Edited by
Lucy Soutter, Duncan
Wooldridge
492 Pages 57 Color & 25
B/W Illustrations.
Published by Routledge, 2024
ISBN 9781032436616
The
Routledge Companion to
Global Photographies
Sous la direction de Lucy
Soutter, Duncan Wooldridge
492 Pages 57 ill en
couleur & 25 en noir
et blanc.
Publié par Routledge, 2024
ISBN 9781032436616
|
DOI:
10.4324/9781003368328-26
This chapter has
been made available
under a
(CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0
license.
Contribution
Abstract
The
physical lives of
images, their
matter,
appearances and
disappearances in
the context of
Beirut
Gregory Buchakjian
Within a context of
continuous conflicts
and unrest, Lebanon
witnessed since the
1990s the rise of
artistic practices
addressing history
and memory through
the extensive use of
images: archive
collections, blurred
boundaries between
real and imaginary
narratives, visible
and absent
documents, altered
and ruined
photographic
objects. Disclosing
a wide array of
examples including
the authors own
work, this essay
reevaluates a
history of image
related productions
through a chronology
of four decades. it
confronts series
that are now part of
the contemporary
cannon such as Walid
Raad’s Atlas Group,
Akram Zaatari’s
venture with Hashem
El Madani and Joana
Hadjithomas and
Khalil Joreige’s
Wonder Beirut with
new unorthodox
experiments like
Lara Tabet’s
microorganisms
cultivated on
negatives, Nasri
Sayegh’s scissor
cuts and Ieva
Saudargaitė
Douaihi’s social
media posts. Taking
the point of view of
an artist, an art
historian and a
friend of most of
the cited persons,
the author
establishes
unexpected
connections and
travels into
temporalities: How
can manipulations,
discoveries and set
up of images be
exercises to
apprehend the past,
cope with the
present and even
premonitions of the
future.
Artists in the
contribution
Joanna Andraos,
Georges Boustany,
Gregory Buchakjian,
Valérie Cachard, Ali
Cherri, Fouad Elkoury,
Joana Hadjithomas and
Khalil Joreige, Lamia
Joreige, Rabih Mroué,
Walid Raad, François
Sargologo, Ieva
Saudargaitė
Douaihi, Nasri
Sayegh, Caroline Tabet,
Lara Tabet, Alfred
Tarazi, Akram Zaatari
Book description:
In response to
widespread demand for
more knowledge and
insight about
contemporary
photographies beyond
Western centers of
production and
dissemination, this
volume provides a
transnational
discussion, grounded in
dialogue between authors
and editors from diverse
locations and
contexts.
Ecological and
decolonial discourses
around photography
reveal the medium’s
global entanglements:
images produced on one
side of the globe are
the result of labors
which span its full
surface. At the same
time, the multiplicity
of approaches and
understandings of the
photograph reveal that
even though it might
seem like a universal
language, we utilize its
tools to radically
different ends. The
volume explores issues
surrounding cultural
translation,
photography’s response
to climate change,
decolonial practices,
network formation, new
materialities,
identities and the role
of photobooks. It also
provides in-depth
surveys and case studies
of global practices and
theories, alongside
interviews and
roundtable discussions
with key figures whose
perspectives illuminate
the contemporary field.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
