Photography in Argentina
Subtitle: contradiction and continuity
By: Idurre Alonso and Judith Keller, editors ; with contributions by Abel Alexander, Rodrigo Alonso, Natalia Fortuny, Valeria González, Ana Longoni, Carlos Masotta, Luis Priamo
Contributors: J. Paul Getty Museum; Proa Fundación; Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (Project)
Publisher: The J. Paul Getty Museum
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781606065327
Subjects: Photography; History; Artistic Photography; Documentary photography; Exhibitions
Other titles: Photography in Argentina, 1850-2010, contradiction and continuity.
Description: "From its independence in 1810 until the economic crisis of 2001, Argentina was perceived as a modern country with a powerful economic system, a strong middle class, a large European-immigrant population, and an almost nonexistent indigenous culture. This perception differs greatly from the way that other Latin American countries have been viewed, and underlines the difference between Argentina’s colonial and postcolonial process and those of its neighbors. Comprising three hundred works by sixty artists, this exhibition examines crucial periods and aesthetic movements in which photography had a critical role, producing--and, at times, dismantling--national constructions, utopian visions, and avant-garde artistic trends." -- Publisher's description
Notes: "Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, Latin American & Latino Art in LA"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-325) and index.

"This publication is issued on the occasion of the exhibition Photography in Argentina, 1850-2010: Contradiction and Continuity, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, from September 16, 2017, to January 28, 2018, and at the Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, from March to May 2018"--Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Idurre Alonso and Judith Keller; title: Plates. Civilization and barbarism; title: National myths; title: The gesture; title: Fissures; title: Essays. Photography of views and customs in nineteenth-century Argentina / Abel Alexander and Luis Priamo; title: Processes of modernization in Argentine photography, 1930-1960 / Valeria González; title: Argentina: myth of light and shadow / Carlos Masotta; title: Putting the body: captured gestures, persistence, and drifts / Ana Longoni and Natalia Fortuny; title: Fissures / Rodrigo Alonso; title: Constructions and deconstructions: reconsidering documentary photography from Argentina and beyond / Idurre Alonso.