TY - BOOK ID - 78647324 TI - Portraits in the Andes PY - 2018 SN - 0822982994 9780822982999 9780822965008 0822965003 PB - Pittsburgh, Pa. DB - UniCat KW - Portrait photography KW - Photography KW - Portraiture KW - History. KW - Portraits KW - Andes KW - Andean Mountain Range KW - Andean Mountains KW - Andean Range KW - Andes Mountain Range KW - Andes Mountain Ranges KW - Andes Mountains KW - Andes Range KW - Andes Ranges KW - Anti (Mountains) KW - Antis (Mountains) KW - Cordillera de los Andes KW - Los Andes KW - The Andes KW - History KW - E-books KW - 1900-1999 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78647324 AB - Portraits in the Andes examines indigenous and mestizo self-representation through the medium of photography from the early to mid twentieth century. As Jorge Coronado reveals, these images offer a powerful counterpoint to the often-slanted, predominant view of indigenismo produced by the intellectual elite. Photography offered an inexpensive and readily available technology for producing portraits and other images that allowed lower- and middle-class racialized subjects to create their own distinct rhetoric and vision of their culture. The powerful identity-marking vehicle that photography provided to the masses has been overlooked in much of Latin American cultural studies--which have focused primarily on the elite's visual arts. Coronado's study offers close readings of Andean photographic archives from the early- to mid-twentieth century, to show the development of a consumer culture and the agency of marginalized groups in creating a visual document of their personal interpretations of modernity. ER -