Dentro y fuera de cuadro. Representación y alteridad en la fotografía de indígenas de Chile.

For decades, the social sciences have been analyzing what we call the “fixed image” as a system of both cultural representation and cultural production. Within this framework, the study of photography (as well as the study of its relationships with other discursive formations) has led to the understanding and interpretation of various ways of representing certain alterities – social and/or ethnic – in different times and different historical and iconographic contexts. This article is an analysis of the visual absence and/or presence of “Chilean” indigenous groups (MapuchesFueguinosAndinos) as well as the specific types of representation that are operating in the photography of these ethnic alterities, using what is specifically photographic –in other words, the processes involved in producing a photographic image– as a starting point, and by comparing diverse corpuses of images.

Palabras Claves
photography
aesthetics
visual anthropology
ethnic groups.
Autor
Margarita Alvarado. Licenciada en Estética, Instituto de Estética, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Autor
Carla Möller. Fotógrafa Independiente.
Recibido
Aceptado
Revista Chilena de Antropología Visual - número 14 - Santiago, diciembre 2009 - 1/41 pp. - ISSN 0718-876x. Rev. chil. antropol. vis.