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Subject(s)

• Images, Photographic—Social aspects—United States—History—19th century [Browse]
• Racism—Economic aspects—United States—History—19th century [Browse]
• Portrait photography—Appreciation—United States—History—19th century [Browse]
• Intellectual property—United States—Cases [Browse]
• Photographs—Law and legislation—United States—History—19th century [Browse]
• Privacy, Right of—United States—Cases [Browse]
• United States—Race relations—History—19th century [Browse]

Series

America and the long 19th century [More in this series]

Summary note

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-296) and index.

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.

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ISBN

• 9781479812400
• 9781479812424 ((hardback))
• 1479812420 ((hardback))
• 1479812404 ((paperback))

LCCN

2021039782

OCLC

1280599319

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