Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography
In Camera Geologica Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography through the minerals upon which the medium depends. Challenging the emphasis on immateriality in discourses on photography, Angus focuses on the inextricable links between image-making and resource extraction, revealing how the mining of bitumen, silver, platinum, iron, uranium, and rare earth elements is a precondition of photography. Photography, Angus contends, begins underground and, in photographs of mines and mining, frequently returns there. Through a materials-driven analysis of visual culture, she illustrates histories of colonization, labor, and environmental degradation to expose the ways in which photography is enmeshed within and enables global extractive capitalism. Angus places nineteenth-century photography in dialogue with digital photography and its own entangled economies of extraction, demonstrating the importance of understanding photography’s complicity in the economic, geopolitical, and social systems that order the world.
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Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography
In Camera Geologica Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography through the minerals upon which the medium depends. Challenging the emphasis on immateriality in discourses on photography, Angus focuses on the inextricable links between image-making and resource extraction, revealing how the mining of bitumen, silver, platinum, iron, uranium, and rare earth elements is a precondition of photography. Photography, Angus contends, begins underground and, in photographs of mines and mining, frequently returns there. Through a materials-driven analysis of visual culture, she illustrates histories of colonization, labor, and environmental degradation to expose the ways in which photography is enmeshed within and enables global extractive capitalism. Angus places nineteenth-century photography in dialogue with digital photography and its own entangled economies of extraction, demonstrating the importance of understanding photography’s complicity in the economic, geopolitical, and social systems that order the world.
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Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography

Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography

by Siobhan Angus
Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography

Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography

by Siobhan Angus

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In Camera Geologica Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography through the minerals upon which the medium depends. Challenging the emphasis on immateriality in discourses on photography, Angus focuses on the inextricable links between image-making and resource extraction, revealing how the mining of bitumen, silver, platinum, iron, uranium, and rare earth elements is a precondition of photography. Photography, Angus contends, begins underground and, in photographs of mines and mining, frequently returns there. Through a materials-driven analysis of visual culture, she illustrates histories of colonization, labor, and environmental degradation to expose the ways in which photography is enmeshed within and enables global extractive capitalism. Angus places nineteenth-century photography in dialogue with digital photography and its own entangled economies of extraction, demonstrating the importance of understanding photography’s complicity in the economic, geopolitical, and social systems that order the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781478059172
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 02/05/2024
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 280
File size: 132 MB
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About the Author

Siobhan Angus is Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Carleton University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations  vii
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction  1
1. Bitumen and a Reorientation of Vision  30
2. Silver and Scale  67
3. Platinum and Atmosphere  106
4. Iron and Unstable Boundaries  132
5. Uranium and Photography beyond Vision  164
6. Rare Earth Elements and De/Materialization  196
Conclusion. All That Is Solid Melts into Air  22
Notes  231
Bibliography  263
Index  293
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