Citizen Photography in Fouad Elkoury’s Beyrouth Aller-Retour
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12919426 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chad Elias (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 265-282 |
| Publication date | 2017-08-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Photographies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1754-0763 • E-ISSN: 1754-0771 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17540763.2017.1340733 |
| OpenAlex | W2745162994 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
This article examines Fouad Elkoury’s Beyrouth aller-retour[Beirut round-trip] (1984), a collection of black-and-white photographs taken during the civil war in Lebanon. Contrary to the images of death and destruction that circulated in the international media at the time, Elkoury’s photographs of Beirut focus on the survival of the inhabitants of a city in which “the future was always in the conditional.” The article argues that the images in Beyrouth aller-retour instantiate a set of civic relations that are otherwise foreclosed by urban warfare and the dominant news media representations that are complicit with its violence. As is shown, Elkoury’s unconventional take on street photography offers a space in which citizens appear in public, come before each other, and enter into forms of civic dialogue by means of images. This essay builds on recent theorizations of photography as a public art through which subjects exercise citizenship and negotiate the terms of collective life
Art · Citizenship · Focus (optics · Media studies · Negotiation · Photography · Photojournalism · Political science · Politics · Public space · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Visual arts · White (mutation · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Public Spaces through Art
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |