Portraits in the Andes

Photography and Agency, 1900-1950

Jorge Coronado (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2018
University of Pittsburgh Press (Verlag)
978-0-8229-6500-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Jorge Coronado is Professor of Latin American literature at Northwestern University. His teaching centers on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literatures and cultures with a focus on the Andes.

Erscheinungsdatum	08.01.2018
Reihe/Serie	Illuminations
Zusatzinfo	58 b&w
Verlagsort	Pittsburgh PA
Sprache	englisch
Maße	6 x 9 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8229-6500-3 / 0822965003
ISBN-13	978-0-8229-6500-8 / 9780822965008
Zustand	Neuware