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The Unintended - Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism (Paperback)
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The Unintended - Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism (Paperback)
Series: America and the Long 19th Century
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Reimagines photography through the long history of ideas of
expression The end of the nineteenth century saw massive
developments and innovations in photography at a time when the
forces of Western modernity—industrialization, racialization, 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. The book pulls together an archive that
encompasses the histories of performance and portraiture alongside
the legal, pursuing the logics by which property rights involving
photographs are affirmed (or denied) in precedent-setting court
cases and legal texts. Emphasizing the making of “expression”
into property to focus our attention on the failures of control
that cameras do not invent, but rather put new emphasis on, this
book argues that designations of control’s absence are central to
the practice and idea of property-making. The Unintended proposes
that tracking and analyzing the sensed horizons of intention,
control, autonomy, will, and volition offers another way into
understanding how white supremacy functions. Ultimately, its unique
historical reading practice offers a historically-specific vantage
on the everyday workings of racial capitalism and the inheritances
of white supremacy that structure so much of our lives.
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