A provocative exploration of photography\'s relationship to capitalism, from leading theorists of visual culture.
Taking the intertwined development of Capitalism and the camera as their starting point, the Essays in Capitalism and the Camera investigate the relationship between capitalist accumulation and the photographic image, and ask w.
Photography was invented between the publication of Adam Smith\'s The Wealth of Nations and Karl Marx and Frederick Engels\'s The Communist Manifesto.
A provocative exploration of photography\'s relationship to capitalism, from leading theorists of visual culture