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

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 intellectu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Coronado, Jorge (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Colección:Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Notas:Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (246 pages): illustrations, portraits.
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-220) and index.
ISBN:9780822982999
Acceso:Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.