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Familiar faces : photography, memory and Argentina's disappeared / edited by Piotr Cieplak

Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: London : Goldsmiths Press, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Description: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 222 pages) : illustrationsISBN:
  • 9781913380755
Other title:
  • Photography, memory and Argentina's disappeared
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9781913380762. | Erscheint auch als: Familiar faces. Druck-Ausgabe. London : Goldsmiths Press, 2024DDC classification:
  • 770.869140982 22
LOC classification:
  • TR36
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Contents:
Intimate moments, public acts: Argentina's long relationship with the photographs of the disappeared / Piotr Cieplak -- Constructing the image of the mothers of Plaza de Mayo through press photography / Cora Gamarnik ; translated by Jorge Salvetti -- Ways of looking: violence, archive and the register of "extremists" / María Eleonora Cristina in conversation with Piotr Cieplak -- Political landscapes and photographic artefacts in post-dictatorship Argentina / Natalia Fortuny ; translated by Jorge Salvetti -- Waiting for the light / Inés Ulanovsky in conversation with Piotr Cieplak -- Photography and disappearance in Argentina: sacredness and rituals in the face of death / Ludmila da Silva Catela ; translated by Jorge Salvetti -- impossible scene: towards an ethnography of the (in)visible in the memories of the survivors of La Perla / Mariana Tello Weiss ; translated by Jorge Salvetti -- What appears and what still shines through / Ana Longoni ; translated by Piotr Cieplak.
Summary: "Familiar Faces offers a diverse, theoretically rich, and empirically informed exploration of photography in Argentina's memorial, political, and artistic landscape. During the country's most recent civic-military dictatorship (1976-1983), 30,000 people were disappeared or killed by the state. Over the decades, vernacular and professional photographs have been central to the Argentine struggle for justice. They were used not only to protest the disappearances under the dictatorship and to denounce the authorities, but also as tools of political and social activism, and for remembering the disappeared. With contributions from leading Argentina-based anthropologists, ethnographers, curators, art scholars, media researchers, and photographers, Familiar Faces moves beyond the traditional considerations of representation, focusing instead on the ways in which photography is continuously reimagined as a tool of memory, mourning, and political and judicial activism. In so doing, it considers the diverse uses of press photography; artistic practice; photographs of the disappeared in domestic rituals; photographs of the inmates of torture centers; the reclamation of images taken by the dictatorial state for memorial and activist purposes."--PPN: PPN: 1919909427Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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