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 FoxNot at the Click of a Button
Text Ariella Azoulay Images Aïm Deüelle LüskiiDocument Police: Contingency, Resistance, and the Precarious Present
Jeffrey SkollerThe Present Moment: A Conversation with Kirsten Johnson
Pamela CohnEverything Can Be Optimized — Review, Comment, and Message Board as Proto-camera
Benj GerdesArchival 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 CollectiveThe Sublimity of Document: Carl Akeley, the Habitat Diorama, and Dioramic Cinema
Scott MacDonaldRepresentational Regimes: A Conversation with the Abounaddara Film Collective
Jason Fox & The Abounaddara Film CollectiveTechnologies of Seeing and Technologies of Corporeality: Currents in Nonfiction Virtual Reality
Mandy RoseCamera 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 HaanTargeted Killing: Ariella Azoulay in Conversation with Miki Kratsman
Text Ariella Azoulay Images Miki KratsmanAction, Documentation, Documentary: The Early Photography of Allan Sekula, Martha Rosler, Fred Lonidier and Phil Steinmetz
Huffa Frobes-CrossBeyond the Expedient: An Interview with Isaac Julien
Ernest Larsen & Sherry MillnerVolume 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