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Portraits in the Andes (Paperback)
Photography and Agency, 1900-1950
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Illuminations
Pages: 240
Illustrations: 58 b&w
ISBN: 9780822965008
Published: 12th April 2018
Script Academic
Series: Illuminations
Pages: 240
Illustrations: 58 b&w
ISBN: 9780822965008
Published: 12th April 2018
Script Academic
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Portraits in the Andes examines indigenous and mestizo self-representation through the medium of photography from the early to mid twentieth century. As Jorge Coronado reveals, these images offer a powerful counterpoint to the often-slanted, predominant view of indigenismo produced by the intellectual elite. Photography offered an inexpensive and readily available technology for producing portraits and other images that allowed lower- and middle-class racialized subjects to create their own distinct rhetoric and vision of their culture. The powerful identity-marking vehicle that photography provided to the masses has been overlooked in much of Latin American cultural studies—which have focused primarily on the elite's visual arts. Coronado's study offers close readings of Andean photographic archives from the early- to mid-twentieth century, to show the development of a consumer culture and the agency of marginalized groups in creating a visual document of their personal interpretations of modernity.
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