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Author Foster, David William, author

Title Argentine, Mexican, and Guatemalan photography : feminist, queer, and post-masculinist perspectives / David William Foster
Edition First edition
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 197 pages) : illustrations
Contents Contents -- Preface -- 1. Dreaming in Feminine: Grete Stern's Photomontages and the Parody of Psychoanalysis -- 2. Annemarie Heinrich: Photography, Women's Bodies, and Semiotic Excess -- 3. Woman, Prostitution, and Modernity in Fin-de-siècle Mexico -- 4 . Buenos Aires and Women in Crisis: The Photography of Silvina Frydlewsky -- 5. Girls Will Be Girls: Daniela Rossell's Ricas y famosas -- 6. Pedro Meyer: Constructing Masculinities, Constructing Photography -- 7. Discovering the Male Body: Marcos Zimmermann's Desnudos sudamericanos
Summary One of the important cultural responses to political and sociohistorical events in Latin America is a resurgence of urban photography, which typically blends high art and social documentary. But unlike other forms of cultural production in Latin America, photography has received relatively little sustained critical analysis. This pioneering book offers one of the first in-depth investigations of the complex and extensive history of gendered perspectives in Latin American photography through studies of works from Argentina, Mexico, and Guatemala. David William Foster examines the work of photographers ranging from the internationally acclaimed artists Graciela Iturbide, Pedro Meyer, and Marcos López to significant photographers whose work is largely unknown to English-speaking audiences. He grounds his essays in four interlocking areas of research: the experience of human life in urban environments, the feminist matrix and gendered cultural production, Jewish cultural production, and the ideological principles of cultural works and the connections between the works and the sociopolitical and historical contexts in which they were created. Foster reveals how gender-marked photography has contributed to the discourse surrounding the project of redemocratization in Argentina and Guatemala, as well as how it has illuminated human rights abuses in both countries. He also traces photography's contributions to the evolution away from the masculinist-dominated post-1910 Revolution ideology in Mexico. This research convincingly demonstrates that Latin American photography merits the high level of respect that is routinely accorded to more canonical forms of cultural production
Analysis Graciela Iturbide, Pedro Meyer, Marcos López, Latin American photography, photography in Argentina
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed on March 9, 2023)
Subject Photography -- Latin America
Photography, Artistic.
Portrait photography -- Latin America
Gender identity -- Latin America
Gender identity in art.
art photography.
COMPUTERS -- Digital Media -- Photography.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Reference.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Imaging Systems.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Criticism.
Gender identity
Gender identity in art
Photography
Photography, Artistic
Portrait photography
Latin America
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013043127
ISBN 9780292768338
0292768338