2002 Infinity Award: Writing

Ariella Azoulay’s Death’s Showcase (MIT Press, 2001) is about the public display of death in contemporary culture. It is a series of essays on specific cases in which death is displayed in museums and in photography. The essays focus mainly on events in recent Israeli history, including the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Palestinian Intifada, and contain extensive interviews with Israeli and Palestinian photojournalists.

Azoulay was born in 1962 in Tel Aviv and studied literature and cinema at the University of Paris VIII, graduating in 1985. She is academic director of the Camera Obscura School of Art in Tel Aviv and teaches visual culture and critical theory at Bar-llan University. In addition to her widely published essays on contemporary museum culture, she has written and directed a trilogy of documentary films.