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.
From Mack's new series of small books DISCOURSE, in which a cultural theorist, curator or artist explores a theme, an artwork or an idea in an extended text.
Paperback with flap
12.5 x 19.5cm, 104 pages
ISBN 978-1-913620-48-6
July 2022
