CAPITALISM AND THE CAMERA

Photography was invented between the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and Karl Marx and Frederick Engels's The Comm unist Manifesto. Taking the intertwined development of capitalism and the camera as their starting point, the essays in Capitalism a nd the Camera investigate the relationship between capitalist accumulation and the photographic image, and ask whether photography m ight allow us to refuse capitalism's violence-and if so, how?Drawn together in productive disagreement, the essays in this collectio n explor...[Read more]