Instances of Agency: Julio Cordero’s Archive and Photographic Portraits
In this article, I discuss the notion of agency in relationship to Julio Cordero’s photographs. Julio Cordero (1879-1961) owned a photography studio in La Paz in the first half of the twentieth century and produced an array of images both inside and outside of the studio. I also offer a sense of th...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
2018-12-01
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| Series: | Bolivian Studies Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://bsj.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/bsj/article/view/195 |
| Summary: | In this article, I discuss the notion of agency in relationship to Julio Cordero’s photographs. Julio Cordero (1879-1961) owned a photography studio in La Paz in the first half of the twentieth century and produced an array of images both inside and outside of the studio. I also offer a sense of the rich documentation that exists in the complete Cordero archive as well as the insights that it opens up concerning the interventions in self-representation made possible by photographic portraiture. Essentially, these interventions lead us to conceptualize image culture as a prime space for enacting agency in Bolivia and Latin American more broadly. |
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| ISSN: | 1074-2247 2156-5163 |