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Exposing the nation : histories of photography in Chile, 1860-1960 / Matthias Pfaller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pfaller, Matthias, author.
- Series:
- Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
- Illuminations : cultural formations of the Americas series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Representation (Philosophy).
- Chile--Photography--History.
- Chile.
- Chile--Photography--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 327 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (1 color), portraits ; 23 cm.
- monochrome
- polychrome
- illustration
- map
- portrait
- Other Title:
- Histories of photography in Chile, 1860-1960
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- "Is photography a Eurocentric practice that others its subjects? In Exposing the Nation, Matthias Pfaller makes the case with a review of a national historiography of photography and images produced in Chile over the course of a century. There are multiple photographies, and they have a variety of uses: science, politics, tourism, family traditions, ethnology, art. They appear in a diverse array of media: government albums, family albums, mass-produced postcards, exhibition prints, scientific records, and published books. Pfaller demonstrates the versatility of photography on the one hand, and the ways in which the national paradigm and modern historiography influenced the production and reception of photographic images on the other. It becomes clear that "national photography" is not a genre of its own, manifest solely in specific discourses. Rather, the nation, photography, and history are meta-discourses that pervade the very idea of Chile as represented through photography and the photographic image."--publisher's website.
- Contents:
- Introduction : collisions and transitions
- Territory : politicizing land
- Time : the coloniality of time
- The other : qualifying alterity
- The foreign : itinerant photographies
- El rostro de Chile : national exhibitions and popularization of the nation
- Conclusion : provoking collisions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-309) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0822967766
- 9780822967767
- 9780822948650
- 0822948656
- OCLC:
- 1523251190
- Publisher Number:
- 90104327419
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