Desert Blooms

Chaudhary, Zahid R

Desert Blooms

Author(s): Chaudhary, Zahid R

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DC Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Chaudhary, Zahid R	-
dc.date.accessioned	2022-01-25T15:02:25Z	-
dc.date.available	2022-01-25T15:02:25Z	-
dc.date.issued	2019-05-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Chaudhary, Zahid R. "Desert Blooms." October 168 (2019): 92-109. doi:10.1162/octo_a_00351.	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0162-2870	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/pr1fq9q517	-
dc.description.abstract	This essay considers the place of abstraction in documentary photography, a genre whose primary aesthetic-political commitment is usually assumed to be on the side of figuration, denotation, and facticity. Taking up photographer Fazal Sheikh's photographic series Desert Bloom, which records natural and human-made disturbances in the Naqab/Negev desert, the essay considers artistic abstraction in relation to other forms of economic, juridical, and political abstraction critical to settler colonialism in particular and capitalism more generally. How might abstraction be the very condition of politics? What might this imply for our understandings of documentary aesthetics?	en_US
dc.format.extent	92 - 109	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	October	en_US
dc.rights	Final published version. Article is made available in OAR by the publisher's permission or policy.	en_US
dc.title	Desert Blooms	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	doi:10.1162/octo_a_00351	-
dc.identifier.eissn	1536-013X	-
pu.type.symplectic	http://www.symplectic.co.uk/publications/atom-terms/1.0/journal-article	en_US

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