Hecho en México: the question of national identity in Mexican photography

a questão da identidade nacional na fotografia mexicana

Authors

  • Ana Carolina Lima Santos Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto

Keywords:

Mexican photography. Symbolic production.National identity. Exoticism.

Abstract

This article examines the construction of Mexican national identity conducted in the field of photography. Through researchs in photographic archives and literature reviews, the paper intends to demonstrate that the mexicanidad evoked in many images produced in the country was marked by an exoticism that arose from the efforts to seek the national character of México by looking to the ‘other’. Rural and indigenous Mexico and miserable Mexico, both portrayed by photographers that do not belong to these worlds, will be taken as examples in order to understand the symbolic production held in this area.

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Author Biography

Ana Carolina Lima Santos, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto

Professora auxiliar no Instituto de Ciências Sociais e Aplicadas da Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, doutoranda do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação Social da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais e pesquisadora convidada no Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas da Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (bolsista Capes - processo nº 0019-12-7).

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2014-12-15

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Lima Santos, A. C. “Hecho En México: the Question of National Identity in Mexican Photography: A questão Da Identidade Nacional Na Fotografia Mexicana”. Intexto, no. 31, Dec. 2014, pp. 162-79, https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/intexto/article/view/44872.

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No. 31 (2014)

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