TY - BOOK TI - Capitalism and the Camera: Essays on Photography and Extraction/ SN - 9781839760808 PY - 2021/// PB - Verso Books; KW - Capitalism KW - TR624-835 Technology- Applied Photography N2 - A provocative exploration of photography's relationship to capitalism, from leading theorists of visual culture. Photography was invented between the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and Karl Marx and Frederick Engels's The Communist Manifesto. Taking the intertwined development of capitalism and the camera as their starting point, the essays in Capitalism and the Camera investigate the relationship between capitalist accumulation and the photographic image, and ask whether photography might allow us to refuse capitalism's violence--and if so, how? ER -