Archive Matter – A Camera in the Laboratory of the Modern

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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A journey through the United Fruit Company’s photo archive and its documentation of corporate expansion into the Caribbean.The establishment of the United Fruit Company as a global political agent with its banana plantations was met with considerable resistance. Now the company’s photographic records are the focal point of Archive Matter as it examines photography’s historical and political impact through the argument that this overlooked, but important, archive made capitalist expansion into the Caribbean possible.Author Liliana Gómez examines the images from within their “optical unconscious” and via the archive’s silences and omissions. The implication of these silences, Gómez argues, is the attempt to conceal the violence embedded within the realities of the plantations’ daily operations and corporate efforts to “modernize” the Caribbean.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-05-20
Mått5 x 8 x 32 mm
Vikt670 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor400
FörlagDiaphanes AG
ISBN9783035803969

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TABLE OF CONTENTSForward by Jens AndermannAcknowledgmentsIntroductionArchive matter and photographyModern visual economy and agricultureThe chapters1. Camera and Capitalism: The United Fruit CompanyThe corporation and its photographic archiveCamera and capitalismSlow violence: capital, labor, technologyThe archive’s chronotope2. The Crossroads of Science and Discourse NetworksThe crossroads of scienceColonialism and landscapingDiscourse networksCompany townsImperial debris3. ‘The World Was My Garden’The world as gardenPhotography and botany’s modern materialitiesThe political economy of agricultureVisual epistemology and botanical matter4. Ethnographic Eyes and Archaeological ViewsThe archaeological expeditions to QuiriguaThe Keith collection or the magic of the Company’s Pre-Columbian objectsFoundational images: "The Maya Through the Ages "(1949)Animated materialityEpilogue. Upheavals and the Resurgent Photographic ArchiveCivil contract and the materiality of the imageThe banana massacre and "One Hundred Years of Solitude"The resurgent photographic archive or the ethics of seeingThe struggle for human rights