The unintended : photography, property, and the aesthetics of racial capitalism / Monica Huerta.
The end of the nineteenth century saw massive developments and innovations in photography at a time when the forces of Western modernity - industrialisation, racialisation, and capitalism - were quickly reshaping the world. 'The Unintended' slows down the moment in which the technology of...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2023]
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| Series: | America and the long 19th century.
NYU Press scholarship online. |
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| Summary: | The end of the nineteenth century saw massive developments and innovations in photography at a time when the forces of Western modernity - industrialisation, racialisation, and capitalism - were quickly reshaping the world. 'The Unintended' slows down the moment in which the technology of photography seemed to speed itself - and so the history of racial capitalism - up. It follows the substantial shifts in the markets, mediums, and forms of photography during a legally murky period at the end of the nineteenth century. Monica Huerta traces the subtle and paradoxical ways legal thinking through photographic lenses reinscribed a particular aesthetics of whiteness in the very conceptions of property ownership. |
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| Item Description: | Also issued in print: 2023. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 309 pages) : illustrations (black and white). |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781479812431 |
| DOI: | 10.18574/nyu/9781479812431.001.0001 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 29, 2024). |