{"product_id":"capitalism-and-the-camera-essays-on-photography-and-extraction-paperback","title":"Capitalism and the Camera: Essays on Photography and Extraction - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKevin Coleman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDaniel James\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA provocative exploration of photography's relationship to capitalism, from leading theorists of visual culture.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePhotography 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith essays by Ariella A sha Azoulay, Siobhan Angus, Kajri Jain, Walter Benn Michaels, T. J. Clark, John Paul Ricco, Blake Stimson, Chris Stolarski, Tong Lam, and Jacob Emery.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKevin Coleman\u003c\/b\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Photos We Don't Get to See\u003c\/i\u003e, on photographs from the 1928 massacre of banana workers in Colombia. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel James \u003c\/b\u003eis the Bernardo Mendel Chair in Latin American History at Indiana University, and the author of \u003ci\u003eResistance and Integration: Peronism and the Argentine Working Class, 1946-1976\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDoña María's Story: Life, History, Memory, and Political Identity\u003c\/i\u003e, and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers: From Household and Factory to the Union Hall and Ballot Box\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and before taking up the Mendel Chair at Indiana University, he taught at Yale University and Duke University.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.1 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 11, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53738325541228,"sku":"9781839760808","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0989\/3019\/6844\/files\/64d6bf5fb99ddde05134ea9cfa5e93e1.webp?v=1778433747","url":"https:\/\/pattansenterprise.com\/products\/capitalism-and-the-camera-essays-on-photography-and-extraction-paperback","provider":"Pattansenterprise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}