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Author Coronado, Jorge, author.

Title Portraits in the Andes : photography and agency, 1900-1950 / Jorge Coronado
Published Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 232 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Series Illuminations: cultural formations of the Americas series
Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 24, 2018)
Subject Portrait photography -- Andes -- History
HISTORY -- Latin America -- General.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
HISTORY -- General.
Portrait photography
SUBJECT Andes -- History -- 20th century
Subject Andes
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822982999
0822982994