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Product details:
ISBN13: | 9781478025931 |
ISBN10: | 147802593X |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | 328 pages |
Size: | 229x152 mm |
Weight: | 726 g |
Language: | English |
Illustrations: | 55 illustrations, including 32 in color |
655 |
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Camera Geologica
An Elemental History of Photography
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Date of Publication: 22 March 2024
Number of Volumes: Cloth over boards
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Short description:
From rare-metal mining to environmental photography, Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography from a materialist perspective of the minerals extractive practices upon which the medium depends.
Long description:
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.
“A major intervention in the study of materiality, Camera Geologica explains how an understanding of photography’s reliance on mineral extraction can provide fascinating and revelatory insights into the sociopolitical realm of a medium that profoundly shapes people’s sense of their world.”
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
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