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Indeterminacy: Thoughts on Time, the Image, and Race(ism)

by David Campany

Photographs: many photographers

Text: David Campany, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa

Publisher: Mack Books

104 pages

Year: 2022

ISBN: 978-1-913620-48-6

Price: 20.50 €

Comments: Paperback with flap; 12.5 x 19.5cm.

In a series of written exchanges, David Campany and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa consider the options for photography in resisting the oppressive orthodoxies of racial capital, conservative history, and neoliberal visual culture. How does the essential indeterminacy of photography square with the need to work out alternative practices? How is visibility achieved beyond the consensual categories of the mass media and the commodification of art? What models are there for the making and reception of photographic books and exhibitions that might cultivate an active spectatorship beyond boutique consumerism? These urgent questions and more are discussed in a spirit of speculation and possibility, in the light of signal events that have shaped the recent past.

DISCOURSE is a series of small books in which a cultural theorist, curator or artist explores a theme, an artwork or an idea in an extended text.

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Indeterminacy: Thoughts on Time, the Image, and Race(ism)

by David Campany

Photographs: many photographers

Text: David Campany, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa

Publisher: Mack Books

104 pages

Year: 2022

ISBN: 978-1-913620-48-6

Price: 20.50 €

Comments: Paperback with flap; 12.5 x 19.5cm.

In a series of written exchanges, David Campany and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa consider the options for photography in resisting the oppressive orthodoxies of racial capital, conservative history, and neoliberal visual culture. How does the essential indeterminacy of photography square with the need to work out alternative practices? How is visibility achieved beyond the consensual categories of the mass media and the commodification of art? What models are there for the making and reception of photographic books and exhibitions that might cultivate an active spectatorship beyond boutique consumerism? These urgent questions and more are discussed in a spirit of speculation and possibility, in the light of signal events that have shaped the recent past.

DISCOURSE is a series of small books in which a cultural theorist, curator or artist explores a theme, an artwork or an idea in an extended text.

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