From Palestine to Israel

A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950

By (author) Ariella Azoulay

Ebook (VitalSource) - £90.00

Publication date:

07 October 2011

Length of book:

256 pages

Publisher

Pluto Press

ISBN-13: 9781849647007

In this carefully curated and beautifully presented photobook, Ariella Azoulay offers a new perspective on four crucial years in the history of Palestine/Israel.

The book reconstructs the processes by which the Palestinian majority in Mandatory Palestine became a minority in Israel, while the Jewish minority established a new political entity in which it became a majority ruling a minority Palestinian population. By reading over 200 photographs from that period, most of which were previously confined to Israeli state archives, Azoulay recounts the events and the stories that for years have been ignored or only partially acknowledged in Israel and the West.

Including substantial analytical text, this book will give activists, scholars and journalists a new perspective on the origins of the Palestine-Israel conflict.
'From Palestine to Israel will confirm Azoulay's status as one of the politically boldest theorists at work in the field of visual studies today'