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Book SynopsisCoronado examines photography to further the argument that intellectuals grafted their own notions of indigeneity onto their subjects.
Trade ReviewThe question that drives
Portraits in the Addes is the relation between the lettered city and photography and the ways in which Latin America’s lettered tradition distorts our ability to
see Andean photographs. Thus, while
indigenismo served as an early filter of Andean photography, indigenous photography was staking out a terrain in many ways inaccessible to and perhaps even invisible to the lettered city."" - Silvia Spitta, Dartmouth College
""An extraordinary study of the practices, circulation and collection of photography among indigenous and mestizo subjects in the Southern Andes,
Portraits in the Andes breaks new ground in our understanding of visual regimes and their geopolitical inscription. Coronado’s detailed investigation into the material life of images in the highlands furthers an alternative genealogy of Andean modernity in the expanded field of visual culture with striking effects for our understanding of the limits of lettered culture and the underside of intellectual history."" - Julio Ramos, University of California, Berkeley
