SPECTOR BOOKS: Mining Photography - The Ecological Footprint of Image Production [The Canary and the Hammer]

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Photography has always depended on the extraction and exploitation of so-called natural raw materials. Having started out using copper, coal, silver, and paper—the raw materials of analogue image production in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—photography now relies, in the age of the smartphone, on rare earths and metals like coltan, cobalt, and europium.

Period14 May 2022

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  • TitleSPECTOR BOOKS: Mining Photography - The Ecological Footprint of Image Production [The Canary and the Hammer]
    Media name/outletSpector Books
    Media typePrint
    Country/TerritoryGermany
    Date14/05/22
    DescriptionPhotography has always depended on the extraction and exploitation of so-called natural raw materials. Having started out using copper, coal, silver, and paper—the raw materials of analogue image production in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—photography now relies, in the age of the smartphone, on rare earths and metals like coltan, cobalt, and europium.
    Producer/AuthorBoaz Levin, Esther Ruelfs, Tulga Beyerle
    URLhttps://www.spectorbooks.com/book/mining-photography-en
    PersonsLisa Barnard