{"product_id":"archive-matter-g-mez-liliana-9783035803969","title":"Archive Matter: A Camera in the Laboratory of the Modern","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA journey through the United Fruit Company's photo archive and its documentation of corporate expansion into the Caribbean.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eArchive Matter \u003c\/i\u003eas it examines photography's historical and political impact through the argument that this overlooked, but important, archive made capitalist expansion into the Caribbean possible. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Author Liliana Gez examines the images from within their \"optical unconscious\" and via the archive's silences and omissions. The implication of these silences, Gez argues, is the attempt to conceal the violence embedded within the realities of the plantations' daily operations and corporate efforts to \"modernize\" the Caribbean. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Liliana Gez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 303580396X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783035803969\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Diaphanes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/05\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.50w x 1.20d","brand":"Liliana Gez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44080409051391,"sku":"9783035803969","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_86fb25ca-dadd-499f-aa7c-15b6f59e5367.jpg?v=1685486622","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/archive-matter-g-mez-liliana-9783035803969","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}