In defense of an undisciplined look: return to Lonquén, 40 years later

Authors

  • Ángeles Donoso Macaya

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22456/2179-8001.136202

Abstract

This essay consists of two parts. In the first part, the author explains the concept of “undisciplined gaze” and also revisits the most important notions formulated in her book The Insubordination of Photography: photographic practice, expanding photographic field, and depth of field. The second part addresses the different documentary reverberations of Lonquen. Regarding the criminal file of this emblematic case—a file to which the general public has full access since 2018—the author explains why she considers it necessary (as well as significant) the gesture of not showing the forensic evidence consigned there.

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Author Biography

Ángeles Donoso Macaya

Ángeles Donoso Macaya é pesquisadora, educadora e ativista. É Professora Titular do Programa de Doutorado em Culturas Latino-Americanas, Ibéricas e Latinas do The Graduate Center, CUNY e do Departamento de Línguas Modernas do BMCC, CUNY. Desde 2020, dirige o Archives in Common, parte do Seminário CUNY Center for the Humanities sobre Participação Pública e Pesquisa Colaborativa. Ela publicou vários artigos que cruzam vários tópicos de pesquisa – teoria e história da fotografia documental, estudos visuais, estudos de memória e transfeminismos na América Latina; humanidades públicas, justiça migrante, ativismo, direitos humanos e produção de contra-arquivos no Cone Sul e em Nova York. É autora de La insubordinación de la fotografía (Metales Pesados, 2021) e The Insubordination of Photography: Documentary Practices under Chile's Dictatorship (University Florida Press, 2020), premiado como Melhor Livro sobre Cultura Visual Latino-Americana no LASA 2021 e Melhor Livro sobre História e Memória Recentes no LASA 2022.

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Published

2023-10-15

How to Cite

Donoso Macaya, Ángeles. (2023). In defense of an undisciplined look: return to Lonquén, 40 years later. PORTO ARTE: Revista De Artes Visuais, 27(48). https://doi.org/10.22456/2179-8001.136202

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DOSSIÊ: Exercícios do Político na Imagem Contemporânea

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