Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The archival turn has had a sobering effect on recent attempts to grapple with the histories of photography but for the best studies––like Craig Campbell’s––the archive itself is part of the historical problem: its internal mechanisms, its effects of power, its production of truth and its techniques of forgetting and erasure––all effects that, as Campbell shows in this highly original work of excavation and disruption, can never be entirely secured against the arbitrariness and disfunction of the archival machine and the troubling liability of archival photographs to slip and slide out of place." —John Tagg, Binghamton University
"Pathbreaking, provocative, and illuminating."—CHOICE
"[An] interesting and well-written study."—American Historical Review
"Campbell’s project is an unabashedly original contribution to the intersecting fields of anthropology, media theory, and Russian/Soviet history, providing us with a stimulating and deep reevaluation of each field as well as the very status of the image itself."—Slavic and East European Journal
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Introduction: In the Archives of the Cultural Base
The Years Are Like Centuries
Dangerous Communications
Conclusion: Ethics of Presence and the (De)generative Image
Notes
Bibliography
Index
