Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

The authors’ curatorial approach is based on the idea of photography as a “document” rather than on its contextual specificity “over the last thirty years in which photography has enjoyed unprecedented worldwide success and our country has [...]

In this review of contemporary Peruvian photography the author questions the attempt to divide the genre into two separate categories that make a distinction between artist photographers and lay photographers. Montalbetti claims that the discussion [...]

In this article the writer Humberto Suárez (who uses the pseudonym Kocha-Puma) profiles the photographer Martín Chambi. Suárez describes the city of Cuzco as an emblematic artistic center that indigenous artists should work to promote. He [...]

In this complimentary document about the photographer from Puno, the writer José Uriel García describes Martín Chambi as a “neo-indigenous artist” whose ethnicity determines Chambi’s “intrinsic skills.” Drawing on his close connection [...]

In this newspaper article, Oscar Cerruto discusses the work of the photographer Martín Chambi. Cerruto refers to Benedetto Croce’s idealistic philosophical concept about expressive beauty, which he uses to defend the artistic nature of photography [...]

Beatriz González profiles the Colombian photographer Luís Benito Ramos Rodríguez, who produced an important body of work in the years between 1934 and 1950, during the period known as the República Liberal [Liberal Republic]. González, an artist [...]