Photography in Argentina

Photography in Argentina
Author: Idurre Alonso
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2017-09-15
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1606065327

From its independence in 1810 until the economic crisis of 2001, Argentina has been seen, in the national and international collective imaginary, as a modern country with a powerful economic system, a massive European immigrant population, an especially strong middle class, and an almost nonexistent indigenous culture. In some ways, the early history of Argentina strongly resembles that of the United States, with its march to the prairies and frontier ideology, the image of the cowboy as a national symbol (equivalent to the Argentine gaucho), the importance of the immigrant population, and the advanced and liberal ideas of the founding fathers. But did Argentine history truly follow a linear path toward modernization? How did photography help shape or deconstruct notions associated with Argentina? Photography in Argentina examines the complexities of this country’s history, stressing the heterogeneity of its realities, and especially the power of constructed pho-tographic images—that is, the practice of altering reality for artistic expression, an important vein in Argentine photography. Influential specialists from Argentina have contributed essays on various topics, such as the shaping of national myths, the adaptation of gesture as related to the “disappeared” during the dictatorship period, the role of contemporary photography in the context of recent sociopolitical events, and the reinterpreting of traditional notions of documentary photography in Argentina and the rest of Latin America.

Urban Photography in Argentina

Urban Photography in Argentina
Author: David William Foster
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2007-08-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0786431210

This work examines the cultural impact of photography in Argentina following the end of the country's military dictatorship in the early 1980s. The interpretive study surveys nine modern photographers in Argentina--Marcelo Brodsky, Gabriel Valansi, Eduardo Gil, Gaby Messina, Adriana Lestido, Gabriel Diaz, Marcos Lopez, Silivio Fabrykant and Gabriela Liffschitz--and covers the major themes in each of their works. The author details each photographer's cultural and artistic contributions and provides a listing of the websites where their works can be viewed.

Argentina

Argentina
Author: Amelia Boman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2019-12-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781673236323

Enjoy the beautiful curated photographs (in color) of Argentina This full page picture book will make a great home coffee table decor accessory or as a gift for a loved one The photos captures the quintessential stunning nature landmarks and scenery of the country and city from day to night without no words (texts) 8.5" x 11" / large size Glossy softcover

Revealing Selves

Revealing Selves
Author: Kike Arnal
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781620972878

Argentina was the first nation in Latin America to legalise same-sex marriage, but the situation is far from perfect. In the beautifully packaged and affordably priced Revealing Selves, award-winning photographer Kike Amal collaborates with individuals in Argentinian transgender communities, living side by side with them and documenting their day-to-day lives in a series of strikingly intimate colour and black-and-white images. Revealing Selves is both a celebration of the trans community in Argentina and a clear-eyed examination of what remains to be done in the struggle for trans rights.

Argentina, the Great Estancias

Argentina, the Great Estancias
Author: César Aira
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1995
Genre: Architectural photography
ISBN: 9780847819058

Depicts buildings from twenty-two ranches in Argentina.

Culture and Customs of Argentina

Culture and Customs of Argentina
Author: David William Foster
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1998-11-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0313007705

Argentina, one of the most dynamic societies in Latin America, is known for its impressive level of cultural production. This examination of the social and cultural institutions of Argentine society contains a series of comprehensive and informative essays that focus on the most important forms of cultural production in terms of major works, major artists, and major venues. Students and interested readers will discover what is unique about Argentina's culture and customs in this thorough and engaging overview. The authors describe the issues that have dominated Argentine society and place everything in its proper context by including a chronology of major historic events. This volume also contains chapters on Religion, Social Customs, Broadcasting and Print Media, Cinema, Literature, Performing Arts, and Art (including Sculpture, Photography, Architecture, Painting).

Photography in Latin America

Photography in Latin America
Author: Gisela Cánepa Koch
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2016-05-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3839433177

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.

Listen, Here, Now!

Listen, Here, Now!
Author: Inés Katzenstein
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780870703669

This book explores the intense, internationally significant developments in Argentine art of the 1960s through English translations of the original documents of the time.

Argentine Intimacies

Argentine Intimacies
Author: Joseph M. Pierce
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2019-10-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1438476833

Winner of the 2020 Best Book in the Nineteenth Century Award presented by the Nineteenth Century Section of the Latin American Studies Association As Argentina rose to political and economic prominence at the turn of the twentieth century, debates about the family, as an ideological structure and set of lived relationships, took center stage in efforts to shape the modern nation. In Argentine Intimacies, Joseph M. Pierce draws on queer studies, Latin American studies, and literary and cultural studies to consider the significance of one family in particular during this period of intense social change: Carlos, Julia, Delfina, and Alejandro Bunge. One of Argentina's foremost intellectual and elite families, the Bunges have had a profound impact on Argentina's national culture and on Latin American understandings of education, race, gender, and sexual norms. They also left behind a vast archive of fiction, essays, scientific treatises, economic programs, and pedagogical texts, as well as diaries, memoirs, and photography. Argentine Intimacies explores the breadth of their writing to reflect on the intersections of intimacy, desire, and nationalism, and to expand our conception of queer kinship. Approaching kinship as an interface of relational dispositions, Pierce reveals the queerness at the heart of the modern family. Queerness emerges not as an alternative to traditional values so much as a defining feature of the state project of modernization.