The Latin American Colloquiums of Photography and the reconfiguration of photographic practices

This article reflects on the changes in the ways of representation in Latin American photography during the 1990s. In this period, it is possible to observe a rupture with the documentary photography of direct registration, a kind of aesthetics that had been established as a feature of the regional...

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Autor: Rigat, Leticia
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:Uruguay
Institución:Universidad Católica del Uruguay
Repositorio:LIBERI
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:liberi.ucu.edu.uy:10895/6038
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ucu.edu.uy/index.php/revistadixit/article/view/2108
https://hdl.handle.net/10895/6038
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Photography
Latin America
Documentary
Identity
Contemporary Art
Fotografía
Latinoamérica
documentalismo
identidad
arte contemporáneo
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Sumario:This article reflects on the changes in the ways of representation in Latin American photography during the 1990s. In this period, it is possible to observe a rupture with the documentary photography of direct registration, a kind of aesthetics that had been established as a feature of the regional photography in the preceding decades. The above-mentioned transformation can be observed from the rise of photographic works characterized by the authors' intervention (either on the level of representation and/or the level of the represented), causing a dimension of temporality typical of contemporary art and the Latin Americanist thought: to deconstruct the images that shaped our imaginaries and the Latin American identity in the present. In this sense, the documents and minutes from the Latin American Colloquiums of Photography, which took place between 1978 and 1996, are inquired. During these colloquiums, photographic practices tried to be defined and categorized.