{"product_id":"camera-geologica-an-elemental-history-of-photography-paperback-softback-9781478030188","title":"Camera Geologica; An Elemental History of Photography (Paperback \/ softback) 9781478030188","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCamera Geologica\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAn Elemental History of Photography\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSiobhan Angus (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781478030188\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 22 March 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e328 pages, 55 illustrations, including 32 in color\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.567 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“A major intervention in the study of materiality, \u003ci\u003eCamera Geologica\u003c\/i\u003e 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.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Rachael Z. DeLue, author of (Arthur Dove: Always Connect) \u003cdiv\u003e“This innovative and exciting study reorients the history of photography to account for the materiality of the medium through its focus on mining and extraction. Siobhan Angus’s geology of photography makes a profound contribution to the history of photography and will be welcomed by labor historians and scholars in the environmental humanities as well.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Shawn Michelle Smith, author of (Photographic Returns: Racial Justice and the Time of Photography) \u003cdiv\u003e“A remarkable achievement. Unfolding across a wonderful selection of well-known and unfamiliar photographic works, \u003ci\u003eCamera Geologica\u003c\/i\u003e is an original, ingenious, and passionate investigation of photography’s mineral materiality and dependency.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Christopher Pinney, coeditor of (Citizens of Photography: The Camera and the Political Imagination) \"\u003ci\u003eCamera Geologica\u003c\/i\u003e is a thorough investigation of nature's extensive contribution to photography's existence-something that is rarely known about or considered. . . . The book’s message about the human consequences of extraction concerns more than users and makers of photography. Highly recommended for all readers who have any use of, interest in, or connection to photography or with human use of any products derived from the Earth's contents.\" - C. Chiarenza (Choice) \"I’ll say up front that \u003ci\u003eCamera Geologica\u003c\/i\u003e is excellent and you should read it. It will surprise, alarm, depress, educate and inspire you. As the author states in the opening pages, \u003ci\u003eCamera Geologica\u003c\/i\u003e belongs in a historical-materialist genealogy, wherein the material world of raw matter, its processing, and its bending into infrastructure, institutions and ideologies explains the power imbalances common among humans.\" - Christy Wampole (European Review of Books)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCamera Geologica\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations  vii\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Bitumen and a Reorientation of Vision  30\u003cbr\u003e 2. Silver and Scale  67\u003cbr\u003e 3. Platinum and Atmosphere  106\u003cbr\u003e 4. Iron and Unstable Boundaries  132\u003cbr\u003e 5. Uranium and Photography beyond Vision  164\u003cbr\u003e 6. Rare Earth Elements and De\/Materialization  196\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. All That Is Solid Melts into Air  22\u003cbr\u003e Notes  231\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  263\u003cbr\u003e Index  293\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52653262405912,"sku":"9781478030188","price":20.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/camera-geologica-an-elemental-history-of-photography-paperback-softback-9781478030188","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}