Die fotografische Erzählung der Deutsche Migration und die Konsolidierung des chilenischen Nationalstaates
Daniela SENN
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Catholic University of Temuco, Department of Anthropology
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Studii culturale
The Photographic Narrative of the German Migration and the Consolidation of the Chilean Nation
Abstract: This article presents an iconological analysis of heritage photographs, that were taken during the migration process of the 19th and early 20th centuries from Germany to Chile and still impact in the present. The photos are conserved in collections in several archives in Chile and were published in different illustrated books, that were financed by the Chilean state in the context of the bicentenary of the Republic (2010). From the visual and critical heritage studies approach, photographs will be contrasted against period literature and contemporary assessments to discern the discursive and aesthetic devices, that are used to elaborate a visual narrative of southern Chile. In this way, images are understood as “readable” elements that, on the one hand, present synchronously and, on the other hand, tell a diachronic story. Heritage photography is selected to represent southern Chile in a specific time period. Cultural heritage is therefore analyzed as an institutional process in which different social agents define historical and aesthetic content as valuable and essential in a certain structure.
Keywords/ Historic narrativ, cultural heritage, photography, southern Chile.
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