Photography in Latin America: Images and Identities Across Time and Space
Bielefeld: transcript (2016), 242 pp.
Contains illustrations
Series: Postcolonial Studies, 24
ISBN 978-3-8376-3317-7 (print); 978-3-8394-3317-1 (pdf)
"Historical photographs taken in Latin America have now become key sites for memory politics, ethnographic imagination, and the negotiation of identity. This volume opens up a set of questions relating to the contemporaneous agency of images as well as their current appropriation via new technologies. Case studies of pictures taken in Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Brazil analyze these processes by tracing how the images have been resignified over time and space. The contributions examine photographs that have been recently rediscovered by such diverse actors as European museums, human rights organizations, anthropologists, shamans, local historians, and communities of internet users." (Publisher description)
Photography in Latin America: Images and Identities Across Time and Space: An Introduction / Ingrid Kummels and Gisela Cánepa Koch, 7
Photography and Men: Encounters with Historical Portrait and Type Photographs [on the photograpyh collection of the Ethnological Museum, Berlin, Germany] / Michael Kraus, 33
Unfixed Images: Circulation and New Cultural Uses of Heinrich Brüning's Photographic Collection [Peru] / Gisela Cânepa Koch, 65
Recognizing Past and Present Through Photography: Temporality and Culture in Konrad Theodor Preuss's Images [Colombia] / Aura Lisette Reyes, 105
Appropriating an Image: A Study of the Reception of Ethnographic Photography Among the Zapotec Indigenous People of Mexico / Mariana da Costa A. Petroni, 139
Unexpected Memories: Bringing Back Photographs and Films from the 1980s to an Asháninka Nomatsiguenga Community of the Peruvian Selva Central / Ingrid Kummels, 165
Gazing at the Face of Absence: Signification and Re-signification of Family Photographs of Disappeared University Students in Peru / Mercedes Figueroa, 195
Disputing Visual Memories in the Peruvian Andes: The Case of Huancasancos, Ayacucho [Peru] / María Eugenia Ulfe and Ximena Málaga Sabogal, 219
Photography and Men: Encounters with Historical Portrait and Type Photographs [on the photograpyh collection of the Ethnological Museum, Berlin, Germany] / Michael Kraus, 33
Unfixed Images: Circulation and New Cultural Uses of Heinrich Brüning's Photographic Collection [Peru] / Gisela Cânepa Koch, 65
Recognizing Past and Present Through Photography: Temporality and Culture in Konrad Theodor Preuss's Images [Colombia] / Aura Lisette Reyes, 105
Appropriating an Image: A Study of the Reception of Ethnographic Photography Among the Zapotec Indigenous People of Mexico / Mariana da Costa A. Petroni, 139
Unexpected Memories: Bringing Back Photographs and Films from the 1980s to an Asháninka Nomatsiguenga Community of the Peruvian Selva Central / Ingrid Kummels, 165
Gazing at the Face of Absence: Signification and Re-signification of Family Photographs of Disappeared University Students in Peru / Mercedes Figueroa, 195
Disputing Visual Memories in the Peruvian Andes: The Case of Huancasancos, Ayacucho [Peru] / María Eugenia Ulfe and Ximena Málaga Sabogal, 219
