| Portraits in the Andes: Photography and Agency, 1900-1950 Contributor(s): Coronado, Jorge (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822965003 ISBN-13: 9780822965008 Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press OUR PRICE: $47.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - South America - Social Science | Indigenous Studies - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Portraits & Selfies |
| Dewey: 980 |
| LCCN: 2018285997 |
| Series: Pitt Illuminations |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.75 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
