Aim Duelle Luski and Horizontal Photography

Exploring radically new possibilities for contemporary photography by an internationally leading theorist. This book is the product of a unique collaboration between Israeli artist and philosopher Am Deelle Lski and visual culture theorist Ariella Azoulay. In their longstanding working relationship, they research how to theorize the structure of the contemporary scopic regime and open a space for its civil transformation. On this occasion, Azoulay interprets a particular series of cameras built by Deelle Lski, along with photographs taken by these cameras. Unlike conventional cameras and their vertical photography, Deelle Lski's cameras seek to generate new sets of relations between the camera and the world. Azoulay's text unfolds four different short histories' of problems in photography, each of which deconstructs what otherwise might appear as a coherent photographic regime, yet which is shown to be based solely on principles of sovereignty and possession. Through and with Deelle Lski's project Azoulay seeks to potentialize' the history of photography, that is, to recover long forgotten, un-materialized possibilities. The book contains 100 images and a conversation between the author and the artist. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).