Volume 1

The Documentary Camera

Jason Fox

What is a documentary camera? What do cameras do? How do we know?

Introduction: What Do Cameras Do?
Jason Fox
Not at the Click of a Button
Text: Ariella Azoulay \\ Images: Aïm Deüelle Lüski
Beyond the Expedient: An Interview with Isaac Julien
Ernest Larsen & Sherry Millner
iDocument Police: Contingency, Resistance, and the Precarious Present
Jeffrey Skoller
The Present Moment: A Conversation with Kirsten Johnson
Pamela Cohn
Everything Can Be Optimized
Benj Gerdes
Archival Interventions: Cecilia Aldarondo and Thomas Allen Harris in Conversation
Cecilia Aldarondo & Thomas Allen Harris
“All of our grievances are connected”: An Interview with The Illuminator Collective
Eli Horwatt & The Illuminator Collective
The Sublimity of Document: Carl Akeley, the Habitat Diorama, and Dioramic Cinema
Scott MacDonald
Representational Regimes: A Conversation with Abounaddara
Jason Fox & The Abounaddara Film Collective
Technologies of Seeing and Technologies of Corporeality
Mandy Rose
Camera Ministry: A Conversation with Khalik Allah
Emily Vey Duke, Cooper Battersby & Vashon Watson
“Something is there”: Filmmaking in Multiple Realities
Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan
Targeted Killing: Ariella Azoulay in Conversation with Miki Kratsman
Text Ariella Azoulay Images Miki Kratsman
Action, Documentation, Documentary
Huffa Frobes-Cross

Volume 1 Editor
Jason Fox

Publishing Director
Christopher Cekay Allen

Managing Editor
Jenny Miller

Design and Art Direction
Christopher Cekay Allen
Alison S. M. Kobayashi
Bartosz Gawdzik

Front End Development
Lukas Steinman

Interactive Architecture
Danny Bowman

Graphic Design
Bartosz Gawdzik
Michał Dudek

Editorial Board
Tarik Elseewi
Benj Gerdes
Faye Ginsburg
Jennifer Hayashida
Alexandra Juhasz
Jonathan Kahana
Alisa Lebow
Martin Lucas
Scott MacDonald
Ivone Margulies
Pooja Rangan
Tess Takahashi

Advisory Board
Josetxo Cerdán
Cíntia Gil
Carlos Gutiérrez
Laliv Melamed
Rachael Rakes
Lynne Sachs
Shireen Seno
Pegi Vail
Genevieve Yue

Logo Design
Bartosz Gawdzik
Michał Dudek

Generous Support Provided by
Ford Foundation

Volume 5 Sponsors
Hunter IMA MFA
The MDOCS Storytellers’ Institute at Skidmore College

Published By
UnionDocs Center For Documentary Art