ABSTRACT
For many of those who traffic in images, producers and consumers alike, witnessing is an essential part of the project. Witness testimony is evidence, and something more than evidence. Witnessing shapes history and memory. All over the world, the political culture is saturated in images and image-makers clamouring to bear witness. Margalit's exposition of the "moral witness" is a scrupulous and suggestive treatment, deservedly influential. His moral witness has a lot to live up to, however, being at once special case and ideal type. His moral witness has a lot to live up to, however, being at once special case and ideal type. Margalit applies strict criteria for admission to this select company. Post-witness is exemplified in a recent project, which is also an anniversary project, by Chloe Dewe Mathews (born 1982), Shot at Dawn (2014).
