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The unintended : photography, property, and the aesthetics of racial capitalism / Monica Huerta.

Author/creator Huerta, Monica, 1981- author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info New York : New York University Press, [2023]
Descriptionxvii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subject(s)
Series America and the long 19th century
America and the long 19th century. ^A785335
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.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formHistory.
Genre/formTrials, litigation, etc.
LCCN 2021039782
ISBN9781479812424 hardcover
ISBN1479812420 hardcover
ISBN9781479812400 paperback
ISBN1479812404 paperback
ISBNelectronic book
ISBNelectronic book

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