Abstract
Ever since its invention at the outset of industrial capitalism in 19th-century Europe, photography has been used in the service of profit/capital accumulation worldwide. Appearances acquired saleable reality or marketable truth-value. The use of imagery and various forms of reproduction (film, advertising in TV, Internet, malls) subtends the dynamics of exchange-value in fixating human desires attuned to manipulated appearances. Can the critical analysis of photographic images help elucidate the mechanisms of ideology and the illusion industry for an emancipatory project? This essay seeks to enable a hypothetical inquiry into the magic of images with reference to the Philippine milieu, designed to be hopefully heuristic and propaedeutic.
Recommended Citation
San Juan, E. Jr.
(2013)
"On Photography in Late Capitalism: Reflections on the Vicissitudes of the Image from a Filipino Persepctive,"
Kritika Kultura:
No.
21, Article 5.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13185/1656-152x.1501
Available at:
https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss21/5
