Body politics
Subtitle: políticas del cuerpo en la fotografía latinoamericana
By: [ Marcelo Brodsky & Julio Pantoja (ed.)]
Series: Colección Lavistagorda
Publisher: La Marca Editora; La Marca
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Buenos Aires
Language: spa; eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9789508891921
Subjects: Staged photography; Catalogs; Human beings in art
Other titles: Políticas del cuerpo en la fotografía latinoamericana
Description: Marcelo Brodsky trained as a photographer at the International Center of Photography in Barcelona during his exile in the 1980s along with photographer Julio Pantoja. In Body Politics they examine the particularly close relationship between photography and politically oriented performance art in Latin America. Among the artists included in its illustrations are Julio Pantoja, Mario Cravo Neto, Gustavo di Mario, Lourdes Grobet, Muriel Hasbun, Cecilia Paredes, Osvaldo Salerno, Gerardo Suter and Helen Zout.
Notes: Based on an exhibition "Cuerpos políticos" held at the Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, June 2007.

Text in Spanish and English.