Photography in Latin America

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Photography in Latin America is written by Gisela Cánepa Koch and published by transcript Verlag. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3839433177 (ISBN 10) and 9783839433171 (ISBN 13).

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.