Image Politics: The New Rhetoric of Environmental Activism

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Find out more here. brings together a broad range of associated perspectives from artists, computers scientists, curators and researchers to question the role played by photography when teaching machines how to see the world. The photograph is not just an image but an event, one in the longer sequence of a photographic moment. “This trenchant, perennially contemporary book valorizes powerful intersubjective relations enabled by photography, relations that exceed the strictures of imperial power. A Cat, A Dog, A Microwave. In this way, we can build our capacity for “civil imagination”: a way of seeing and imagining ourselves as part of the image rather than only as spectators. ” - Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, author of Dark Mirrors For Azoulay, photography’s entangled temporalities enable a transformation of our sense of what persists, just as a collective practice of civil imagination reconstructs our apprehension of those with whom we unevenly share a lifeworld. Azoulay contradistinguishes spectatorship from the radical work of being a companion— a distinction that itself rewrites normative conceptions of the social work of seeing. With our high quality and fast digitizing process, we help newspaper archives in converting their physical prints into digital format.