Lenguajes visuales en la Era del Desarrollo: Análisis de las campañas fílmicas y fotográficas de las Naciones Unidas (1945-1970)

Óscar Daniel Hernández Quiñones

doi:10.24310/fotocinema.28.2024.17843

Authors

Óscar Daniel Hernández Quiñones Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt Germany https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2793-1772

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/fotocinema.28.2024.17843

Keywords:

Documentary films, humanitarian photography, development, technical assistance, United Nations

Agencies: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Abstract

Based on primary sources collected in the archives of the specialized agencies of the United Nations Organization (UN), the article explores the articulation of educational cinema and documentary photography to the global communications program with which they disseminated their model of development and technical assistance in the postwar years. Although both expressions were valued positively for their massive scope, the integration of each one into the institutional structure of the agencies faced particular vicissitudes that reveal the adaptive capacity of the development discourse and multilateralism to turbulences of the period such as the Cold War and the decolonization processes in the Global South.

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