Photographs of a neighborhood’s identity.
Based on an investigation located in a railway district from an average sized city in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the article suggests an analysis of the relationships between social memory processes and the construction of urban-neighborhood identities, and the production and treatment of photographic images. Through an audiovisual investigation, the uses and the production of photographs are addressed in the critical interventions of some social actors related to the neighborhood history, which intend to interpellate hegemonic narratives both at the local level and concerning broader contexts. Both used and produced images respond to a set of demands that claim, among others, measures of patrimonial protection in the neighborhood and the restitution of the passenger train service.