Capitalism and the Camera: Essays on Photography and Extraction

Photography was invented between the publication of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations and Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels's Communist Manifesto. Taking the intertwined development of capitalism and the camera as their starting point, the essays collected here ask, among other questions, whether photography might allow us to refuse capitalism's violence-and if so, how? Drawn together in productive disagreement, Capitalism and the Camera explores the relationship of photography to resource extrac...