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Rustling Image

Videographic and Photographic Witnessing of the Syrian Revolution

Av Meir Wigoder, Bernd Herzogenrath, Patricia Pisters

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The Rustling Image begins from a historical juncture: when global news networks could not report from within the Syrian revolution, millions of low-resolution mobile-phone videos recorded by activists and citizen journalists became records of protest and war. Blurred, pixelated, unstable, and unverifiable, these images challenged expectations of clarity, authority, and evidentiary certainty.Using the Syrian revolution as a case study rather than a bounded subject, the book develops an account of visual uncertainty. It shifts attention from the forensic effort to verify events toward examining how images operate when clarity cannot be secured. Drawing on twentieth-century theories of ambiguity and the limits of representation, it examines how such theories illuminate twenty-first-century digital witnessing, in which images circulate rapidly while their meanings remain unsettled and continually deferred.When images fail to reveal what they were intended to prove, attention turns to how they resonate. “Rustling images” designates a mode of visual-listening attuned to both surface and sound. As these raw images enter archives, documentary practices, and contemporary art, the book traces their transformation from shock-images into pensive-images that invite reflection and poetic association. By attending to how unstable images resonate, the book treats uncertainty as a condition of vigilant witnessing in which meaning remains unsettled, keeping alive the possibility of imagining images still to come.
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Meir Wigoder is an independent scholar and photographer. Retired from teaching, his work focuses on photography theory, media aesthetics, and, in particular, representations of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. His research explores how photographs and moving images mediate political events and acts of witnessing, while his photographic work engages with those terrains marked by political division and destruction. His articles have appeared in Public Culture, Critical Inquiry, Third Text, and History of Photography, in addition to other journals and edited volumes.

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This deeply considered, lucidly written study of mobile phone imaging of the Syrian revolution is substantively and methodologically original with several moments of real brilliance. Wigoder's rich, sensitive analyses of low-resolution images carefully attend to the situatedness of videographers and their subjects, while remaining aware of his own position. He also shows how, in a digital age, local crises conditions can generate images that are both political and personal, but also may enter the global media stream to be appropriated for other purposes and contexts. Furthermore, Wigoder's intertwined technical, formal, and political considerations are informed by, and intervene in, media theory and philosophy. Overall, the book is an important contribution to understandings of contemporary documentation and digital witnessing.

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