Description |
1 online resource (xii, 232 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
Series |
Illuminations: cultural formations of the Americas series |
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Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
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Contents |
Practice : photography in the Southern Andes, 1900-1950 -- Photographs and lettered culture : visual and literary practices in Latin America and the Andes -- Portrait -- Consumption -- Agency -- The archive dispersed |
Summary |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 24, 2018) |
Subject |
Portrait photography -- Andes -- History
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- General.
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Portrait photography
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SUBJECT |
Andes -- History -- 20th century
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Subject |
Andes
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780822982999 |
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0822982994 |
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