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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.

Table of 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.

Author/Creator:

Coronado, Jorge , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Portraits in the Andes: photography and agency, 1900-1950 [by Coronado, J.]

Related Series:

Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

Subjects:

Andes — History — 20th century

Portrait photography — Andes — History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 24, 2018).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

F2212 .C667 2018eb

ISBNs:

9780822982999 (electronic bk.)
0822982994 (electronic bk.)
9780822965008 [Invalid]
0822965003 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1037273025

Other Control Numbers:

EBC5399343 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp15438284