Author: Rona Sela
The book Made Public summarizes three years of research on military photography archives in Israel. It deals with two key subjects each involving the other: the manner in which military systems collect, preserve and censore photographic information about the Palestinian other - in the past and over the years - and the missing chapters of Palestinian visual historiography. The military units collected data regarding the Palestinians as part of information gathering for a variety of military and operational objectives and also preserved information on military subjects received from individuals and private organisations. The military photographic information is based on a multiplicity of power relations, from the way information was collected from army units, organizations or other archives (plunder, looting, secret and forbidden duplicating of material from other archives, and intelligence gathering by various means, etcetera) to the way the archives are managed (censorship and restricted viewing and use) and how certain materials are not revealed to the public. The book thus examines the collection of photographs of Palestinians and about Palestinians collected in military photography archives, and their use. It documents the way military bodies and archives, including military photography archives subordinate to them, receive, collect and preserve information regarding the Palestinian other and control its distribution in the public realm.
| | | | More about Made Public | | | Limited edition
Two volumes
First volume- text (Hebrew with English Abstract), second volume - photographs
336 pages (168 pages each volume)
Price- $90 (90 U.S. Dollars for two volumes, including shipment to Europe)
$105 (105 U.S. Dollars for two volumes, including shipment to Canada and America)
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| | | |  | | Chalil Rissas, Abdel-Qadir al-Husayni Studying Maps with his Aides, undated, Lootde material, Haganah Archive
| | |  | | Yaffa, Arabic and Hebrew book shop, the book launch, 24.10.2009, Dr. Maged Khamera (right) | | |
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