《摄影的新自由主义现实主义》通过广为人知的摄影师安妮•莱博维茨、格雷戈里•克鲁森和安德烈亚斯•古尔斯基的作品探讨了这些艺术家是如何通过给广泛持有且鲜有质疑的信念和观念赋予摄影形式，来制造资本主义的对等物苏联的社会主义现实主义的。

Confronting the work of widely celebrated photographers Annie Leibovitz, Gregory Crewdson and Andreas Gursky, Photography’s Neoliberal Realism 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. This extended essay provides an alternative reading of photographic works laden with artifice, and argues how focusing on this artifice misses the more far-reaching ways such images operate in our visual economy.