Photography's Materialities: Transatlantic Photographic Practices over the Long Nineteenth Century ed. by Geoff Bender and Rasmus R. Simonsen (review)

Photography's Materialities is a significant publication, bringing together scholars working in discrete fields of photographic analysis as well as researchers outside art history and media disciplines who draw on photographic sources. The diverse chapters are concerned with photographs' engagement with the broader worlds of their creation and consumption. To this end, Bruno Latour's "actor-network theory," which considers technologies' activated uses within systems of trade and knowledge exchange, has inspired all contributors.