Portraits in the Andes : Photography and Agency, 1900-1950 / Jorge Coronado.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coronado, Jorge, author.

Series:

Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

Illuminations: cultural formations of the Americas series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Andes--History.

Andes.

Portrait photography--Andes--History.

Portrait photography.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 PDF (xii, 232 pages) :) illustrations, portraits.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-220) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822982999

0822982994

OCLC:

1037273025