Portraits in the Andes : Photography and Agency, 1900-1950 Paperback / softback
by Jorge Coronado
Part of the Illuminations series
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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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages, 58 b&w
- Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press
- Publication Date:12/04/2018
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- ISBN:9780822965008
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages, 58 b&w
- Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press
- Publication Date:12/04/2018
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- ISBN:9780822965008