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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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-41f63c729a4e4a8b90ca86e01e7b207b2022-12-22T02:48:09ZengUniversity Library System, University of PittsburghBolivian Studies Journal1074-22472156-51632018-12-01230244510.5195/bsj.2018.195146Instances of Agency: Julio Cordero’s Archive and Photographic PortraitsJorge Coronado0Northwestern UniversityIn 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.http://bsj.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/bsj/article/view/195agencyphotographyportrait |
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