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Model citizens: Citoyens modèles

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    Citoyens modèles

Abstract

Debi Cornwall: Model Citizens considers the United States as a case study into a global phenomenon: How have staging, performance, and roleplay come to inform thinking about citizenship in a violent land whose people no longer agree on what is true? The last in a trilogy of books on the American condition, Model Citizens includes photographs from US Border Patrol Academy training scenarios, "Save America" rallies, and history museums. Jarringly juxtaposed images from these apparently unrelated sites illuminate systems that reconcile, justify, or distract from the harsh realities of life in a polarized, militarized society. The design accentuates slippages: images flow across French-fold page turns, just as Cornwall's practice questions the role of documentary photography in an era of splintered realities.

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Simulating citizenship / Kris Paulsen -- Violent, modeled, and model citizens / Vanessa Codaccioni, translated by Ella Bartlett.

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    • Santa Fe, NM: Radius Books
    • Lausanne: Photo Elysée
    • [Paris]: Éditions Textuel, [2024]

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    9798890180957

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    • Some pages are double leaves that have not been cut.
    • "Published in the context of Prix Elysée ... [and] on the occasion of the exhibition Debi Cornwall: Model Citizens coproduced by Les Rencontres d'Arles and Photo Elysée, and presented at the 2024 edition of the festival in Arles, from July 1st to September 29" -- Colophon.

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