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Title

The human snapshot / edited by Thomas Keenan & Tirdad Zolghadr.

Publication

[Meilen], Switzerland : Luma Foundation ; Annandale-on-Hudson, NY : Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College ; Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2013], ©2013.

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Additional Authors

• Keenan, Thomas, 1959-
• Zolghadr, Tirdad.
• Fondation LUMA.

Description

xxx, 319 pages : illustrations (some color); 27 cm

Subjects

• Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973 > Family of Man > Congresses
• Humanism > 21st century > Congresses
• Political ethics > Congresses
• Human rights > Philosophy > Congresses

Note

• "This publication documents the proceedings of the conference, The human snapshot, held in Arles, France, on July 2 and 3, 2011, as part of an ongoing series of projects and programs organized by the LUMA Foundation"--P. [7].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Foreword / Maja Hoffmann -- Introduction : the sandwich / Tirdad Zolghadr -- "The family of man" : a visual universal declaration of human rights / Ariella Azoulay -- Notes on display, and a work by Alejandra Riera / Roger M. Buergel -- A brief encounter with fine art, universality, and other weathered notions / Bassam El Baroni -- The colonial modern : of pylons, airplanes, and donkeys / Marion von Osten -- Tropicale modernité / Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster -- A xenophobic democracy / Michel Feher -- Reimagining the common : rethinking the refugee experience / Sadi Hilal and Alessandro Petti -- Spectators of the now, the now of spectatorship / Katya Sander -- The politics of neutrality : constructing a global civility / Suhail Malik -- Missing people : entanglement, superposition, and exhumation as sites of indeterminacy / Hito Steyerl -- The image is the bone! / Eyal Weizman -- Notes on the double bind of universalism and image / Anselm Franke -- Humanist correspondence / Alex Klein -- Toward a grammar of emergency / Hal Foster -- Copia / Denis Hollier -- Fragments of humanity / Georges Didi-Huberman -- Afterword : two snapshots / Thomas Keenan.

ISBN

• 9783943365634
• 3943365638

OCLC

• ocn836780790
• SCSB-5694544

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries