Picturing Algeria
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Picturing Algeria
(A Columbia/SSRC book)
Columbia University Press, c2012
- : cloth
- : pbk
- Other Title
-
Images d'Algérie
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
-
Library, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization図
MWAE||91||P117914110
Note
"First published in French as Images d'Algérie by Camera Austria/Actes Sud."--T.p. verso
Originally published as catalog of an exhibition held Jan. 23-Mar. 2, 2003, Institut du monde arabe
Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-218)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
As a soldier in the French army, Pierre Bourdieu took thousands of photographs documenting the abject conditions and suffering (as well as the resourcefulness, determination, grace, and dignity) of the Algerian people as they fought in the Algerian War (1954-1962). Sympathizing with those he was told to regard as "enemies," Bourdieu became deeply and permanently invested in their struggle to overthrow French rule and the debilitations of poverty. Upon realizing the inability of his education to make sense of this wartime reality, Bourdieu immediately undertook the creation of a new ethnographic-sociological science based on his experiences-one that became synonymous with his work over the next few decades and was capable of explaining the mechanics of French colonial aggression and the impressive, if curious, ability of the Algerians to resist it. This volume pairs 130 of Bourdieu's photographs with key excerpts from his related writings, very few of which have been translated into English. Many of these images, luminous aesthetic objects in their own right, comment eloquently on the accompanying words even as they are commented upon by them.
Bourdieu's work set the standard for all subsequent ethnographic photography and critique. This volume also features a 2001 interview with Bourdieu, in which he speaks to his experiences in Algeria, its significance on his intellectual evolution, his role in transforming photography into a means for social inquiry, and the duty of the committed intellectual to participate in an increasingly troubled world.
Table of Contents
Foreword, by Craig Calhoun Pierre Bourdieu and Algeria: An Elective Affinity, by Franz Schultheis Pictures from Algeria: An Interview with Pierre Bourdieu, by Franz Schultheis War and Social Transformation in Algeria Habitus and Habitat Men-Women An Agrarian Society in Crisis The Economics of Poverty In Algiers and Blida: Image Sequence, by Pierre Bourdieu Comments on the Photographic Documentations of Pierre Bourdieu, by Christine Frisinghelli Works by Pierre Bourdieu on Algeria List of Photographs Notes
by "Nielsen BookData"