Familiar faces photography, memory and Argentina's disappeared Photography, memory and Argentina's disappeared Cieplak, Piotr editor. text bibliography biography History Essays. enk 2024 2024 monographic eng print xi, 222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm "Familiar Faces offers a diverse, theoretically rich, and empirically informed exploration of photography in Argentina's memorial, political, and artistic landscape. During the country's most recent civic-military dictatorship (1976-1983), 30,000 people were disappeared or killed by the state. Over the decades, vernacular and professional photographs have been central to the Argentine struggle for justice. They were used not only to protest the disappearances under the dictatorship and to denounce the authorities, but also as tools of political and social activism, and for remembering the disappeared. With contributions from leading Argentina-based anthropologists, ethnographers, curators, art scholars, media researchers, and photographers, Familiar Faces moves beyond the traditional considerations of representation, focusing instead on the ways in which photography is continuously reimagined as a tool of memory, mourning, and political and judicial activism. In so doing, it considers the diverse uses of press photography; artistic practice; photographs of the disappeared in domestic rituals; photographs of the inmates of torture centers; the reclamation of images taken by the dictatorial state for memorial and activist purposes."-- Intimate moments, public acts: Argentina's long relationship with the photographs of the disappeared / Piotr Cieplak -- Constructing the image of the mothers of Plaza de Mayo through press photography / Cora Gamarnik ; translated by Jorge Salvetti -- Ways of looking: violence, archive and the register of "extremists" / María Eleonora Cristina in conversation with Piotr Cieplak -- Political landscapes and photographic artefacts in post-dictatorship Argentina / Natalia Fortuny ; translated by Jorge Salvetti -- Waiting for the light / Inés Ulanovsky in conversation with Piotr Cieplak -- Photography and disappearance in Argentina: sacredness and rituals in the face of death / Ludmila da Silva Catela ; translated by Jorge Salvetti -- An impossible scene: towards an ethnography of the (in)visible in the memories of the survivors of La Perla / Mariana Tello Weiss ; translated by Jorge Salvetti -- What appears and what still shines through / Ana Longoni ; translated by Piotr Cieplak. edited by Piotr Cieplak. Includes bibliographical references and index. s-ag--- Photography Argentina 20th century Photography Argentina Influence 20th century Photography Political aspects Argentina 20th century Disappeared persons Argentina History 20th century Disappeared persons in art History 20th century Argentina History Dirty War, 1976-1983 Photography Photography Argentina History 20th century Personnes disparues Argentine Histoire 20e siècle Photographie Argentine Histoire 20e siècle Argentine Histoire 1976-1983 (Dictature militaire) Photographie Disappeared persons Disappeared persons in art Photography Argentina Dirty War (Argentina : 1976-1983) fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39Qhp4vBb3bmRhMFtty9bjTYX 1900-1999 fast TR36 .F36 2024 770.869140982 362.87098209047 9781913380762 1913380769 9781913380755 pda,print YDX 230211 20250318220347.3 in00005469176 eng