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oapen-20.500.12657-631392024-03-28T08:18:52Z Photography After Capitalism Burbridge, Ben art photography political philosophy political science capitalism art books artists capital government gift books geopolitics political science books art book photography books political books gifts politics photo photo book artwork world politics international politics philosophy essays journalism sociology critical theory art history architecture arts culture design writing essay aesthetics creativity marxism economics socialism 21st century society music world history technology psychology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AJ Photography and photographs::AJT Photographic equipment and techniques: general thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AJ Photography and photographs::AJC Photographs: collections thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AJ Photography and photographs::AJT Photographic equipment and techniques: general::AJTF Photography: subject-specific techniques and principles thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPF Political ideologies and movements thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library and information sciences / Museology::GLP Archiving, preservation and digitization thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AJ Photography and photographs::AJC Photographs: collections::AJCD Individual photographers In Photography After Capitalism, Ben Burbridge makes the case for a radically expanded conception of photography, encompassing the types of labor too often obscured by black-boxed technologies, slick platform interfaces, and the compulsion to display lives to others. His lively and polemical analysis of today's vernacular photographic cultures shines new light on the hidden work of smartphone assembly teams, digital content moderators, Street View car drivers, Google “Scan-Ops,” low-paid gallery interns, homeless participant photographers, and the photo-sharing masses. Bringing together cultural criticism, social history, and political philosophy, Burbridge examines how representations of our photographic lives—in advertising, journalism, scholarship and, particularly, contemporary art—shape a sense of what photography is and the social relations that comprise it. More precisely, he focuses on how different critical and creative strategies—from the appropriation of social media imagery to performative traversals of the network, from documentaries about secretive manual labor to science fiction fantasies of future sabotage—affect our understanding of photography's interactions with political and economic systems. 2023-05-24T12:56:38Z 2023-05-24T12:56:38Z 2022 book ONIX_20230524_9781913380830_27 9781913380830 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63139 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781913380830.pdf Goldsmiths Press Goldsmiths Press acec4c9d-1c7b-4283-b478-0ac91e6dcfdd 9781913380830 Goldsmiths Press 256 open access
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In Photography After Capitalism, Ben Burbridge makes the case for a radically expanded conception of photography, encompassing the types of labor too often obscured by black-boxed technologies, slick platform interfaces, and the compulsion to display lives to others. His lively and polemical analysis of today's vernacular photographic cultures shines new light on the hidden work of smartphone assembly teams, digital content moderators, Street View car drivers, Google “Scan-Ops,” low-paid gallery interns, homeless participant photographers, and the photo-sharing masses. Bringing together cultural criticism, social history, and political philosophy, Burbridge examines how representations of our photographic lives—in advertising, journalism, scholarship and, particularly, contemporary art—shape a sense of what photography is and the social relations that comprise it. More precisely, he focuses on how different critical and creative strategies—from the appropriation of social media imagery to performative traversals of the network, from documentaries about secretive manual labor to science fiction fantasies of future sabotage—affect our understanding of photography's interactions with political and economic systems.
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