Portraits in the Andes

Photography and Agency, 1900-1950
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8229-6500-8
Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

Reihe: Pitt Illuminations

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coronado, Jorge

Über Autor(innen)

Jorge Coronado is associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Northwestern University. He is the author of The Andes Imagined: Indigenismo, Society, and Modernity. His teaching centers on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American literatures and cultures, with a focus on the Andes. He has lectured widely at universities in Latin America, Europe, and the United States and currently codirects the Andean Cultures and Histories working group at Northwestern.