Living in a Material World. Pictures of Natives from the Chilean Desert
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For Chilean constructers —chroniclers, explorers and ethnology researchers— of photographic visuality of the Chilean desert and altiplano, images presents itself, in publications, as a dehumanized materiality made by an imagery of the desert that expulses humanity, where materiality gets hold of the images, keeping it a secret so as to subtract, specially, the natives. The following paper will explore the process and symbolic mechanisms that allowed the expulsion and exclusion, in the images, of the natives from the North of Chile in a series of publications and people of letters who deal with subjects such as the deserts and its ancestral and living habitants
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