MASCULINE LOOK THAT INSISTS. Images and gender in a photograph album about argentine history

Authors

  • Sergio Caggiano Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social (IDES), Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8034.2008v10n2p59

Abstract

Which are the images that we use to imagine the “nacional community”? In the second half of 2005 Clarín, the newspaper of major issue in Argentina, delivered free a photograph book defined as an “album of the argentine history”. The paper analyzes this book trying to understand modalities and criteria of visibilization and of social classification. More precisely, it asks about representation of women and men in the album, about forms in which these women and men are showed and about ways in which they dissapear; finally, about the visual construction of “their” places at society. Di-vision between public and private and unequal valuations about these social spaces appear (again) as the keys to interpret these photographs.

Author Biography

Sergio Caggiano, Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social (IDES), Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP)

Cadidato a Doctor en Ciencias Sociales (IDES-UNGS), Magister en Sociología de la Cultura y Análisis Cultural (UNSaM-IDAES). Becario del CONICET, ha desarrollado tareas de investigación sobre migraciones, interculturalidad, procesos identitarios y discriminación para el Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO), CLASPO (University of Texas, Austin) y la Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Integra el Grupo de Trabajo “Migración y Cultura” de CLACSO. Profesor e investigador de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata y la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Es autor de Lo que no entra en el crisol. Inmigración boliviana, comunicación intercultural y procesos identitarios (Prometeo, 2005) y de Lecturas desviadas sobre Cultura y Comunicación (Edulp, 2007), y ha publicado artículos en revistas especializadas nacionales y extranjeras.

Published

2008-12-15

How to Cite

CAGGIANO, Sergio. MASCULINE LOOK THAT INSISTS. Images and gender in a photograph album about argentine history. Ilha Revista de Antropologia, Florianópolis, v. 10, n. 2, p. 59–83, 2008. DOI: 10.5007/2175-8034.2008v10n2p59. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ilha/article/view/2175-8034.2008v10n2p59. Acesso em: 16 jul. 2024.

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Section

Thematic section: Anthropology and Communication