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Book SynopsisProvides an insider’s perspective to the study of photography. Nathanial Gardner offers readers a carefully structured introduction that lays out his unique methodology for this book, which features over eighty photographs and the insights from sixteen prominent Latin American photography scholars and historians.
Trade ReviewThis book is unprecedented in its importance for introducing the research, methodologies, and perspectives of the Latin American community of scholars of photography and history into the English-speaking world."--James Krippner, coauthor of
Paul Strand in Mexico"Gardner's work of placing these Latin American scholars in their context is formidable. In the end, his conclusions offer an abundant contribution to the study of photography in our region of the world."--Daniel Escorza Scorpio Mejía, author of
Agustín Víctor Casasola: El fotógrafo y su agencia"
The Study of Photography in Latin America makes the case for both the importance of Latin America to the global development of photography and the richness and originality of its recent contributions to photographic and visual studies. Anyone serious about Latin American photography should read this book."--John Lear, author of
Picturing the Proletariat: Artists and Labor in Revolutionary Mexico, 1908-1940
