ISBN:
9781479812424
,
9781479812400
Language:
English
Pages:
xvii, 309 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
America and the long 19th century
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Huerta, Monica, 1981 - The Unintended
DDC:
770.973
Keywords:
Images, Photographic Social aspects 19th century
;
History
;
Racism Economic aspects 19th century
;
History
;
Portrait photography Appreciation 19th century
;
History
;
Intellectual property Cases
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Photographs Law and legislation 19th century
;
History
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Privacy, Right of Cases
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United States Race relations 19th century
;
History
;
USA
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Porträtfotografie
;
Geistiges Eigentum
;
Kapitalismus
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Rassismus
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Geschichte 1840-1900
Abstract:
"Through close attention to the centrality of involuntarity in pivotal nineteenth-century American court cases that created new property relations with photographs, this book offers a historically situated theory of photography in terms of expression and an archivally-supported theory of whiteness as an aesthetics of racial capitalism"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface : read, don't move -- Introduction : without intention, the end of this world -- Expression -- Property's proscenium -- Property's horizon -- Property's edge -- Expressionless.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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