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Kevin Coleman is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto, and author of A Camera in the Garden of Eden. His research has been funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies; the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; and the Fulbright-Hayes. He is currently working on a documentary film, The Photos We Don’t Get to See, on photographs from the 1928 massacre of banana workers in Colombia. Daniel James is the Bernardo Mendel Chair in Latin American History at Indiana University, and the author of Resistance and Integration and Doña María’s Stor. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship.
These essays scrutinize the photograph from multiple angles to expose the image-capitalism of our ongoing Imperial Age. A treasure trove of contemporary approaches to critical visual studies. -Susan Buck-Morss, CUNY Graduate Center This is the most original and ground-breaking collection of essays on photography that I have seen in many years, featuring notable critics and scholars at the height of their powers. Do not look for consensus here, but a refreshing take on the enduring contradictions that beset this essential medium of modernity. -W.J.T. Mitchell, author of What Do Pictures Want? Scintillating ... [in Capitalism and the Camera] Coleman and James ask us to consider the primary destructive gaze of powerful companies. -Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, Art in America
