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Capitalism and the Camera - Essays on Photography and Extraction

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Photography was invented between the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and Karl Marx and Frederick Engels's The Communist Manifesto. Taking the intertwined development of capitalism and the camera as their starting point, the essays in Capitalism and the Camera investigate the relationship between capitalist accumulation and the photographic image, and ask whether photography might allow us to refuse capitalism's violence-and if so, how?Drawn together in productive disagreement, the essays in this collection explore the relationship of photography to resource extraction and capital accumulation, from 1492 to the postcolonial; the camera's potential to make visible critical understandings of capitalist production and society, especially economies of class and desire; and propose ways that the camera and the image can be used to build cultural and political counterpublics from which a democratic struggle against capitalism might emerge.With essays by Ariella Aisha Azoulay, Siobhan Angus, Kajri Jain, Walter Benn Michaels, T. J. Clark, John Paul Ricco, Blake Stimson, Chris Stolarski, Tong Lam, and Jacob Emery.

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Kevin Coleman is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto, and author of A Camera in the Garden of Eden: The Self-Forging of the Banana Republic. His research has been funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies; the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; and the Fulbright-Hayes. He is currently working on a documentary film, The Photos We Don’t Get to See, on photographs from the 1928 massacre of banana workers in Colombia.

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Authors Kevin Coleman, Coleman Kevin, Daniel James, James Daniel
Publisher Verso
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 11.05.2021
 
EAN 9781839760808
ISBN 978-1-83976-080-8
No. of pages 320
Dimensions 155 mm x 235 mm x 23 mm
Subjects Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs
Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV

Photography & photographs, Theory of art, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, PHOTOGRAPHY / History, PHOTOGRAPHY / Criticism, Photography and photographs, Erotic art, Erotic art / Erotica in the arts

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