Putting the Public into PicturesVisual Culture in the History of Labor and Empire

Mor, Jessica Stites

doi:10.1215/01636545-6942742

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Putting the Public into Pictures: Visual Culture in the History of Labor and Empire

Coleman, Kevin,

A Camera in the Garden of Eden: The Self-Forging of a Banana Republic

(

Austin

:

University of Texas Press

,

2016

). 312 pp. ISBN 978-1-4773-0854-7, cloth, $80.00; ISBN 978-1-4773-0855-4, paper, $27.95.

Quirke, Carol,

Eyes on Labor: News Photography and America’s Working Class

(

Oxford

:

Oxford University Press

,

2012

). 358 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-976822-6, cloth, $115.00; ISBN 978-0-19-976823-3, paper, $33.95.

Jessica Stites Mor

Jessica Stites Mor is an associate professor of history at the University of British Columbia and serves as editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. She is author of Transition Cinema: Political Filmmaking and the Argentine Left since 1968 (2012), coeditor of El Pasado que miramos (The Past We View, 2009) with Claudia Feld, and editor of Human Rights and Transnational Solidarity in Cold War Latin America (2013).

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Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (132): 221–225.

https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-6942742

Abstract

This review considers two recent visual histories of labor in the Americas. It compares Kevin Coleman’s A Camera in the Garden of Eden to Carol Quirke’s Eyes on Labor and asks questions related to the methodologies and findings of each study. The article also sets the two works into their historiographic contexts and suggests how each pushes the boundaries of its given geographical field.

photography, labor, visual studies, imperialism, book review

2018

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