Collaboration

Viewing this extensive show is thought-provoking and enlightening and is well worth several hours of one’s time.– “NewCity Art on “Collaboration” exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago”Well-designed [and] lavishly illustrated… Highly recommended.– “Choice”A book that looks at photography using an expanded angle…to use as a challenge to your ideas of what photography is and how it is being made… The breadth and richness of the material covered provides incredible rewards, in particular since the reach is global. If you’re only familiar with your standard Western photography, your eyes will be opened to a lot of other photography (and thinking)… An absolutely invaluable and essential book that, ideally, will find its way not only into the studios of photographers but especially into the classrooms of photography schools. From now on, anyone studying to get a masters will have no excuse any longer for not knowing that photography’s standard model of authorship is flawed. The most exciting aspect of the book is the fact that it points out ways forward… Highly recommended.– “Conscientious Photography Magazine”A captivating and essential resource.– “Hyperallergic”An invigorating alternative to traditional ways of understanding the history of photography.– “Library Journal”[An] excellent challenge to the ‘single creator’ view of photography… The collection also astutely illustrates how photography–even when ostensibly deployed to oppress–can subtly critique power structures and dominant cultural narratives… Enriched by the volume’s incisive social commentary, these striking images leave a mark.– “Publishers Weekly (starred review)”

Ariella Azoulay is a Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Comparative Literature at Brown University.

Wendy Ewald is a photographer who has collaborated on art projects with children, families, women and teachers for fifty years. She has published twelve books.

Susan Meiselas is a documentary photographer and member of Magnum Photos since 1976.

Leigh Raiford is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Laura Wexler is a Professor of American Studies, Film & Media Studies and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Yale University.