October 2020
The exhibition Documenting the Impact of Covid-19 through Photography: Collective Isolation in Latin America aims to create a critical visual record of our unprecedented times.
The exhibition was curated in collaboration with ReVista and the Art, Culture, and Film program at Harvard David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS). Through this curated selection of photography from Latin America and the Caribbean, the exhibition seeks to promote a regional perspective of the collective isolation imposed by Covid-19. Check out the photo Gallery!
Lima, Peru. Photo by Rodrigo Abd
Ciudad de México, México. Photo by Miguel Tovar.
São Paulo, Brazil. Photo by Gui Christ.
See Articles and stories about photography in HCS-Manguinhos:
Martínez, Alejandro. “Un souvenir de los paisajes submarinos”: la fotografía subacuática y los límites de la visibilidad fotográfica, 1890-1910. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Set 2014, vol.21, no.3.
Mraz, John. War is hazardous for your health: photographs and testimonies about death, wounds, disease and medical care during the Mexican Revolution. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Sept 2011, vol.18, no.3, p.893-906. ISSN 0104-5970
Photography and railroads – This article analyzes how railway engineering was connected to the production of photographs in nineteenth-century Brazil.
The Indian in Brazilian photography April 19, 2018, Indian Day in Brazil The Indian in Brazilian photography: incursions into image and medium, by Fernando de Tacca (Universidade Estadual de Campinas), explores contradictions and convergences between a medium (photography) and the image of the Brazilian Indian.
Sons of the forest Edited by actor Viggo Mortensen, the book outlines the work of German Ethnographer Max Schmidt and includes photographs he made in Mato Grosso, Brazil and Paraguay between 1900 and 1935.
