| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 232 pages) : illustrations, portraits. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Illuminations: cultural formations of the Americas series
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Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Andes -- History -- 20th century.
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Andes. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Portrait photography -- Andes -- History.
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Portrait photography. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| ISBN |
9780822982999 (electronic book) |
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0822982994 (electronic book) |
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9780822965008 |
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0822965003 |
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