Ethnographic photography: Between science and aesthetics
- Region: Online
- Type: Talk
- Cost: Free
Discover the relationship between ethnography, photography and modern art in the construction of new Mexican identities,1890-1940.
Tuesday 17th September, 16:00-17:00 GMT+1
As ethnographic research into indigenous groups grew after the Mexican revolution, photography became one of the most important instruments in the representation of these vast ethnic differences and specificities. Modern artists were interested in photography, both as an expressive artistic form but also as a useful documentary technique, often exchanging with both anthropologists and professional photographers.
Join Deborah Dorotinsky Alperstein for a free online talk, on the exchange between ethnography, photography and modern art and the construction of new Mexican identities between 1890-1940.
This event has been organised in collaboration with INHA: Institut national d’histoire de l’art. It is part of Art History Festival 2024 organised by the Association for Art History.
Speaker Biography
Deborah Dorotinsky Alperstein (she/her/ella) is a full-time, tenured researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas in UNAM, Mexico City. Her areas of research include the History of Mexican Ethnographic Photography 1850-1950, Visual Culture and gender in Mexico 1920-1950 and Popular Arts through the 20th Century. Her book, Viaje de sombras. Fotografías del Desierto de la soledad y los indios lacandones en los años cuarenta was published by UNAM-IIE in 2013 http://biblio.esteticas.unam.mx/items/show/9 She is currently responsible for the Getty research project “Popular Arts in the Twentieth Century: concepts, dialogues and social resistance” a joint venture She is currently responsible for the Getty research project “Popular Arts in the Twentieth Century: concepts, dialogues and social resistance” a joint venture between Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas-UNAM, IDEAS in the Universidad Nacional de San Martín in Buenos Aires, Argentina and the Graduate Art and Architecture program in Universidad Nacional de Colombia, in Medellín.