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

2. Argentina: Affiliative seeing

3. Diana Taylor, Disappearing Acts
Diana Taylor, Disappearing Acts. Gender and Nationalism in Argentina’s Dirty War
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4. Madres Plaza de Mayo
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6. H.I.J.O.S
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7. Memoria Gráfica de Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo (Abril 2001, Plaza de la Recoleta , Bs. Aires)
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9. Ausencias, Gustavo Germano 2008
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15. Página /02/2008
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16. Peru: The Paradox in the ethical demand of seeing

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18. “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)
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“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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21. Denuncia, Vera Lentz
Ayacucho, 1984
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