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You can purchase the ebook via this listing, \u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/geo.itunes.apple.com\/book\/photographys-neoliberal-realism\/id1535194159\"\u003eApple Books\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/u\/bzgPqL?store=amazon\"\u003eKindle Store\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eConfronting the work of widely celebrated photographers Annie Leibovitz, Gregory Crewdson and Andreas Gursky, \u003cem\u003ePhotography’s Neoliberal Realism\u003c\/em\u003e examines how these artists produce capitalism’s equivalent of the Soviet Union’s socialist realism by giving photographic form to widely held and rarely questioned beliefs and ideas. The ideological framework that Colberg terms ‘neoliberal realism’ serves to cement an economic system whose many fault lines are becoming increasingly clear, such as staggering inequality and racial disparities. 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