Ángeles Donoso Macaya
Assistant Professor of Modern Languages, Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY
“(Documentary) Photography and its Limits”
This presentation approaches the issue of “border aesthetics” by considering the liminal position of documentary photography during the eighties and nineties in Chile. What I call the “limits of (documentary) photography” has to do both with ‘actual’ restrictions—those instances of censorship imposed on photography by the military regime during the eighties—and with aesthetic and epistemic boundaries—i.e., the critical formulations about photography put forward by art critics after the entrance of “non-official” artistic practices into the Museum in the nineties.