Title & Author:

Capitalism and the camera : essays on photography and extraction / edited by Kevin Coleman and Daniel James.

Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 2021.

Description:

xiv, 305 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Capitalism and the camera / Kevin Coleman and Daniel James -- Toward the abolition of photography's imperial rights / Ariella Aisha Azoulay -- Mining the history of photography / Siobhan Angus -- Go away closer : photography, intermediality, unevenness / Kajri Jain -- Anti-capitalism and the camera / Walter Benn Michaels -- Capitalism without images / T.J. Clark -- Moths to the flame : photography and extinction / John Paul Ricco -- Public photography / Blake Stimson -- Marketing the socialist experiment : Soviet photo-reportage between the World Wars / Christopher Stolarski -- Where there is no room for fiction : urban demolition and the politics of looking in postsocialist China / Tong Lam -- The mirror and the mine : photography in the abyss of labor / Jacob Emery.

Summary:

"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"-- Back cover.

ISBN:

9781839760808
183976080X
(UK eBook)
9781839760815
(US eBook)
9781839760822

Subject:

Photography Political aspects.
Photography Influence.
Capitalism and mass media.
Photographie Aspect politique.
Photographie Influence.
Capitalisme et médias.

Added entries:

Coleman, Kevin P., editor.
James, Daniel, 1948- editor.
Coleman, Kevin P. editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 309706
Call No.: BIB 254902
Status: Available