Daniella Wurst Columbia University LASA 2015 Seeing ausencias: Photography, memory and the disappeared in Latin America Daniella Wurst Columbia University LASA 2015

Argentina: Affiliative seeing

Diana Taylor, Disappearing Acts Diana Taylor, Disappearing Acts. Gender and Nationalism in Argentina’s Dirty War Percepticide (Image 1)

Madres Plaza de Mayo (Image 2)

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H.I.J.O.S (Image 4)

Memoria Gráfica de Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo (Abril 2001, Plaza de la Recoleta , Bs. Aires) (Image 5)

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Ausencias, Gustavo Germano 2008 (Image 7)

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Página 12. 05/02/2008 (Image 12)

Peru: The Paradox in the ethical demand of seeing

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“The act of seeing, of understanding and processing by way of images and testimonies implies a corner of Peruvian society to know the history, to get closer to the truth In this sense, the decision to walk through this house requires a decision to remember” (Exhibit pamphlet) (Image 14)

(Image 15) “How could we create a visual remembrance of the war without fostering more bitterness among this traumatized and wounded population? Peru did not need a photographic chamber of horrors but a sanctuary of truth. Paradoxically, such a place would have to be both a repository for pain and a place that could attract visitors and sustain them during Their confrontation with the terrors of the past. This situation called for art to serve as a palliative against pain: aesthetics and history would be combined to evoke a response of compassion, solidary, and reconstruction. (Chappell and Mohanna, interview, mi enfasis)

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Denuncia, Vera Lentz Ayacucho, 1984 (Image 17)

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