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English | Softcover | 2026 | 288 pages | 29×21 cm
Publisher Thames and Hudson Ltd
Author Susan Meiselas, Wendy Ewald, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Leigh Raiford, Laura Wexler
ISBN 9780500298299
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Book Description
When we talk about the history of photography, our attention is often directed toward the photographer. Yet Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography poses a fundamental question: does a photograph truly belong only to the person who presses the shutter?
Conceived by photography theorist Ariella Aïsha Azoulay together with photographers Wendy Ewald and Susan Meiselas, and scholars Leigh Raiford and Laura Wexler, this groundbreaking volume brings together more than 600 images and over 100 case studies to examine the collaborative relationships that have long been overlooked in conventional photographic histories. The book highlights the roles played by subjects, communities, archivists, researchers, and viewers in the creation, circulation, and interpretation of photographs.
Rather than focusing on celebrated photographers and canonical masterpieces, Collaboration approaches photography as a social practice shaped by many participants. Through documentary photography, photojournalism, artistic projects, and historical archives, the contributors explore how cooperation, power, friendship, conflict, exploitation, and resistance influence both the making of images and the meanings they carry.
The book further challenges established ideas of authorship and visual authority by addressing issues of gender, race, colonial histories, and social class. Through an ambitious combination of photographs, quotations, testimonies, and critical essays, Collaboration not only reconsiders the history of photography but also invites readers to reflect on how images shape our understanding of the world.
More than a book about photography, this is a profound exploration of relationships, power, and collective creation. For photographers, curators, researchers, and anyone interested in visual culture, Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography stands as one of the most important and thought-provoking publications on photography in recent years.
Book Details
Authors: Susan Meiselas, Wendy Ewald, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Leigh Raiford, Laura Wexler
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Dimensions: 29 × 21 cm
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288 pages


