Title: Ninguna imagen es inocente
Description: Alicia D'Amico (Buenos Aires, 1933-2001) was one of the most important Argentine photographers of the twentieth century, founder of the Consejo Argentino de Fotografía, and cofounder along with Cristina Orive and Sara Facio of the publishing house La Azotea, a pioneer in Latin American photo books. Toward the end of the last Argentine military dictatorship (1973-83), D'Amico began research on female identity, using the genres of portraiture and the nude. During the First Argentine Congress of La Mujer en el Mundo de Hoy, in October 1982, D'Amico met performance artist and author Liliana Regina Mizrahi (Buenos Aires, 1943) with whom she explored questions of identity, particularly with regard to lesbian desire and the female body. Both women delved into a series of photo-performances that took into account the results of these experiences in which they worked on the topic of violence to create between 1984 and 1987 a photographic performance using 35 mm black and white photographs. In a first reading, crossed by the post-traumatic moment that Argentina lived, the performance brings us the memory of some methodologies of kidnapping of people and torture, implemented during state terrorismʺ. (HKB Translation) --Page [49].
Subjects: Portraits, Catalogs, Female impersonators, Performance art, Pictorial works, Portrait photography, Artistic Photography
Places: Argentina
People: Liliana Mizrahi (1943-), Alicia D'Amico (1933-2001)
Time periods: 20th century