Articles about "visual economy"

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Uses and meanings of the female portrait in the Guatemalan press, 1890-1924. Making social history with images: a methodological proposal.

  • Paulina Pezzat Sánchez

At the end of the xixThe photographic image was incorporated into the world of print and new markets were opened to market printed works as well as images. The selection of which images to publish and their meaning was a decision mediated by the social conventions of the time, notions of race and gender, the class aspirations of intellectual elites and a project of national identity. This article proposes to analyze the visual economy of female portraiture in Guatemala published in illustrated magazines between 1900 and 1920. The objective is to analyze the visual discourses on Guatemalan women and to present a methodological proposal for the analysis of photographic images.