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Manor College
(Hardcover)
Matthew J Smalarz; Foreword by Jonathan Peri Jd
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Whether at UFW picket lines in California's Central Valley or
capturing summertime street life in East Harlem Latinx
photographers have documented fights for dignity and justice as
well as the daily lives of ordinary people. Their powerful,
innovative photographic art touches on family, identity, protest,
borders, and other themes, including the experiences of immigration
and marginalization common to many of their communities. Yet the
work of these artists has largely been excluded from the documented
history of photography in the United States. Through individual
profiles of more than eighty photographers from the early history
of the photographic medium to the present, Elizabeth Ferrer
introduces readers to Latinx portraitists, photojournalists, and
documentarians and their legacies. She traces the rise of a Latinx
consciousness in photography in the 1960s and '70s and the growth
of identity-based approaches in the 1980s and '90s. Ferrer argues
that in many cases a shared sense of struggle has motivated
photographers to work purposefully, driven by a deep sense of
resistance, social and political commitments, and cultural
affirmation, and she highlights the significance of family photos
to their approaches and outlooks. Works range from documentary and
street photography to narrative series to conceptual projects.
Latinx Photography in the United States is the first book to offer
a parallel history of photography, one that no longer lies at the
margins but rather plays a crucial role in imagining and creating a
broader, more inclusive American visual history.
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