Fotografías de la Guerra del Pacífico: Representaciones de gloria, sacrificio y derrota (1879-1883)
Year: 2026

This article explores symbolic representations in photographs of the War of the Pacific (1879-1884) from a sociocultural perspective. Through a comparative analysis of 12 images taken by Eduardo Spencer and Eugène Courret, it examines how Chile and Peru used photography to document and construct narratives about the conflict. Using Felix del Valle's methodological approach, which considers the epistemic, symbolic and aesthetic dimensions of the images, the article offers an in-depth view of how