The Insubordination of Photography: Documentary Practices Under Chile's Dictatorship - Couverture souple

Macaya, Ángeles Donoso

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1683403541 ISBN 13 : 9781683403548

Editeur : University Press of Florida, 2023

Synopsis

Latin American Studies Association Visual Culture Section Best Book Prize



Latin American Studies Association Historia Reciente y Memoria Section Best Book Prize

Honorable Mention, Conference on Latin American History
Susan M. Socolow and Lyman L. Johnson Prize



The role of documentary photography in exposing and protesting the crimes of a dictatorship

After Augusto Pinochet rose to power in Chile in 1973, his government abducted, abused, and executed thousands of his political opponents. The Insubordination of Photography is the first book to analyze how various collectives, organizations, and independent media used photography to expose and protest the crimes of Pinochet's authoritarian regime.



Ángeles Donoso Macaya discusses the ways human rights groups such as the Vicariate of Solidarity used portraits of missing persons in order to make forced disappearances visible. She also calls attention to forensic photographs that served as incriminating evidence of government killings in the landmark Lonquén case. Donoso Macaya argues that the field of documentary photography in Chile was challenged and shaped by the precariousness of the nation's politics and economics and shows how photojournalists found creative ways to challenge limitations imposed on the freedom of the press.



In a culture saturated by disinformation and cover-ups and restricted by repression and censorship, photography became an essential tool to bring the truth to light. Featuring never-before-seen photographs and other archival material, this book reflects on the integral role of images in public memory and issues of reparation and justice.



A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez



Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ángeles Donoso Macaya is professor of Spanish at the Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY and professor of Latin American culture and visual studies at The Graduate Center/CUNY. She is coeditor of Latinas/os on the East Coast: A Critical Reader.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Florida
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1683403541
• ISBN 13: 9781683403548
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 268
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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