Photographic surfaces: the rest, the trace and the images in crisis

Authors

  • Natalia Fortuny Universidad de Buenos Aires / Conicet - Argentina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/Fotocinema.2021.vi22.11727

Keywords:

Argentine Photography, 2001 Crisis, Collective memory, Surface, Recent past

Abstract

This article takes, on the one hand, as a turning point the Argentine crisis of 2001 to thread certain works of Argentine artistic photography that intersect art and politics, evoking one of the experiences of that political-social outbreak. On the other hand, the article thinks of photography in its objectual nature from an important dimension of photographic materiality: its surface. Specifically, the visual strategies of two photographic groups will be displayed: the series Banks, by Juan Travnik (2003-2005) and Corralito, by Nuna Mangiante (2009). The photographic image, a surface itself, captures in these series the very surface of the spaces of the city in crisis, especially around its economic consequences and what was known as "the bank corralito". Their procedures and choices will define them as photographic memories of a past in crisis.

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Author Biography

  • Natalia Fortuny, Universidad de Buenos Aires / Conicet - Argentina

    Natalia Fortuny is a Lecturer in Latin American Visual Arts and Photography at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and Conicet. She was awarded her PhD in Social Sciences (UBA) and has a masters degree in History of Argentine and Latin American Art (IDAES-UNSAM). From 2016 she coordinates FoCo, a research group in Contemporary Photography, Arts and Politics at the Instituto Gino Germani (UBA). She has published Memorias fotográficas. Imagen y dictadura en la fotografía argentina contemporánea (La Luminosa, 2014, available here) and "Instantáneas de la memoria: fotografía y dictadura en Argentina y América Latina" (Libraria, 2013, with Blejmar y García).

References

Published

2021-01-28

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How to Cite

Photographic surfaces: the rest, the trace and the images in crisis. (2021). Fotocinema. Revista científica De Cine Y fotografía, 22, 305-329. https://doi.org/10.24310/Fotocinema.2021.vi22.11727