Abstract

RIGAT, Leticia. The Latin American Colloquiums of Photography and the reconfiguration of photographic practices. Dixit [online]. 2020, n.32, pp.33-45.  Epub June 01, 2020. ISSN 1688-3497.  https://doi.org/10.22235/d.vi32.2108.

This article reflects on the changes in the ways of representation in Latin American photography during the 1990s. In this period, it is possible to observe a rupture with the documentary photography of direct registration, a kind of aesthetics that had been established as a feature of the regional photography in the preceding decades. The above-mentioned transformation can be observed from the rise of photographic works characterized by the authors' intervention (either on the level of representation and/or the level of the represented), causing a dimension of temporality typical of contemporary art and the Latin Americanist thought: to deconstruct the images that shaped our imaginaries and the Latin American identity in the present. In this sense, the documents and minutes from the Latin American Colloquiums of Photography, which took place between 1978 and 1996, are inquired. During these colloquiums, photographic practices tried to be defined and categorized.

Keywords : photography; Latin America; documentary; identity; contemporary art.

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