The Unintended : Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism / Monica Huerta.
Huerta, Monica, author.
2023
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Title The Unintended : Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism / Monica Huerta.
Author Huerta, Monica, author.
ISBN 9781479812431
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479812431.001.0001
Published New York, NY : New York University Press, [2023]
Copyright ©2023
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource : 19 b/w illustrations
Item Number 10.18574/nyu/9781479812431.001.0001 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification 770.973
Summary Reimagines photography through the long history of ideas of expressionThe 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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Series America and the Long 19th Century ; 26
In EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2023
EBOOK PACKAGE Arts, Architecture and Design 2023 English
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023
New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
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Frontmatter
Contents
Figure P.1. Carte-de-visite, captioned "Learning Is Wealth: Wilson, Charley, Rebecca & Rosa, Slaves from New Orleans," 1864.
Preface. Read, Don't Move
INTRODUCTION. Without Intention
1. EXPRESSION
2. PROPERTY'S PROSCENIUM
3. PROPERTY'S HORIZON
4. PROPERTY'S EDGE
5. EXPRESSIONLESS
CODA. Relations beyond Property
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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