"Ariella Azoulay’s The Civil Contract of Photography is, among other things, a political theory of photography that investigates and radically rethinks prevalent conceptualizations of citizenship [...] This theoretical “citizenry of photography” develops out of two conceptual valences shared by photography and citizenship: recognition and plurality. [...] The Civil Contract of Photography is thus a (re)conceptualization of citizenship through the lens of photography and an analysis of photography through the frame of citizenship." (John M. Woolsey, Reviews in Cultural Theory)
