[audiobook] The Piano Guys - Simplified Favorites; Vol. 1 by The Piano Guys in Arts-Photography

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One of the important cultural responses to political and sociohistorical events in Latin America is a resurgence of urban photography; which typically blends high art and social documentary. But unlike other forms of cultural production in Latin America; photography has received relatively little sustained critical analysis. This pioneering book offers one of the first in-depth investigations of the complex and extensive history of gendered perspectives in Latin American photography through studies of works from Argentina; Mexico; and Guatemala.David William Foster examines the work of photographers ranging from the internationally acclaimed artists Graciela Iturbide; Pedro Meyer; and Marcos Loacute;pez to significant photographers whose work is largely unknown to English-speaking audiences. He grounds his essays in four interlocking areas of research: the experience of human life in urban environments; the feminist matrix and gendered cultural production; Jewish cultural production; and the ideological principles of cultural works and the connections between the works and the sociopolitical and historical contexts in which they were created. Foster reveals how gender-marked photography has contributed to the discourse surrounding the project of redemocratization in Argentina and Guatemala; as well as how it has illuminated human rights abuses in both countries. He also traces photographys contributions to the evolution away from the masculinist-dominated postndash;1910 Revolution ideology in Mexico. This research convincingly demonstrates that Latin American photography merits the high level of respect that is routinely accorded to more canonical forms of cultural production.