From Palestine to Israel : a photographic record of destruction and state formation, 1947-50 / Ariella Azoulay ; translated by Charles S. Kamen.

"First published in Hebrew by Resling Publishing House, Tel Aviv, 2009"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 18-19) and index.

Introduction : constituent violence 1947-50 -- Military governmentality -- Socialization to the state, and the mechanisms of subordination -- Architecture of destruction, dispossession and gaining ownership -- Creating a Jewish political body and deporting the country's Arab residents -- Borders, strategies of uprooting, and preventing return -- Looting, monopolizing and expropriation -- Observing "their catastrophe"

In this carefully curated and beautifully presented photobook, Ariella Azoulay offers a new perspective on four crucial years in the history of Palestine/Israel. The book reconstructs the processes by which the Palestinian majority in Mandatory Palestine became a minority in Israel, while the Jewish minority established a new political entity in which it became a majority ruling a minority Palestinian population. By reading over 200 photographs from that period, most of which were previously confined to Israeli state archives, Azoulay recounts the events and the stories that for years have been ignored or only partially acknowledged in Israel and the West.

In this carefully curated and beautifully presented photobook, Ariella Azoulay offers a new perspective on four crucial years in the history of Palestine/Israel. The book reconstructs the processes by which the Palestinian majority in Mandatory Palestine became a minority in Israel, while the Jewish minority established a new political entity in which it became a majority ruling a minority Palestinian population. By reading over 200 photographs from that period, most of which were previously confined to Israeli state archives, Azoulay recounts the events and the stories that for years have been ignored or only partially acknowledged in Israel and the West.