The Resolution of the Suspect

Title: The Resolution of the Suspect

Photographer(s): Miki Kratsman

Writer(s): Ariella Azoulay

Designer(s): Radius Books

Publisher(s): Radius Books, Santa Fe, U.S.A., Peabody Museum Press, Cambridge, U.S.A.

Year: 2016

Print run:

Language(s): English

Pages: 216

Size: 21 x 28 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Edition:

Print: EBS, Verona, Italy

Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Palestine,>2015

ISBN: 9781934435779

Kratsman’s photographs look at both “wanted men”—individuals sought by the Israeli state—and the everyman and everywoman on the street who, by virtue of being Palestinian in a particular time and place, can be seen as a “suspect.” The work is both transgressive and banal, crossing boundaries between Israel and Palestine, “wanted” and “innocent,” street photography and surveillance imagery. A thought-provoking text by Ariella Azoulay engages intimately with Kratsman’s images. Looking at various models of historical and civil construction of the gaze, Azoulay explores the ways in which the shadow of death is an actual threat that hovers over Kratsman’s photographed persons and frames both individuals and the borrowed time within which they exist.