Secuencias iconográficas desde (hacia) El Alto

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  • Pedro Aliaga Mollinedo Museo Nacional de Etnografía y Folklore

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/bsj.2025.380

Palabras clave:

El Alto siglo XX, fotografias, audiovisual, teatro, culturas visuales, estética alteña

Resumen

El texto a continuación recoge mi intervención oral en la primera sesión de culturas visuales que organizamos en la Ceja de la ciudad de El Alto bajo el auspicio de Amta Café cultural y el Archivo Comunitario de El Alto en agosto de 2022. La propuesta central de este texto se enmarca en la perspectiva del análisis de imágenes que vienen del pasado pero que tienen mucho que decir sobre la manera en que las historias, las identidades y las miradas se han forjado. Para este texto y su descripción y análisis, se seleccionó tres tipos de secuencias iconográficas que he denominado: (1) la imagen en movimiento, (2) la imagen narrada y (3) la imagen seriada. Por un lado, se analizan cuatro audiovisuales como documentos de exposición y análisis, todos fechados entre 1939 y la década de 1960. Por otro lado, se analiza el guion de una obra de teatro del dramaturgo nacional Zacarías Monje Ortiz fechada en 1928 y que es, hasta el momento, la primera ficcionalización del espacio que hoy ocupa la ciudad de El Alto. Finalmente, se aborda un conjunto de ocho fotografías capturadas por el geógrafo norteamericano Robert Swanton Platt en 1930 en lo que vendría a ser la ciudad de El Alto.

A través de este enfoque, busco no solo examinar el contenido de cada tipología de imagen, sino también reflexionar sobre las interacciones y las resonancias que emergen de estos breves pasajes, revelando cómo cada uno contribuye a la construcción de lo que llamaré como una “mirada acumulada colectiva” sobre El Alto/Los Altos. Hacia el final, propongo que las imágenes analizadas adelantan varias dinámicas sociales, estéticas e históricas en la ciudad de El Alto.

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2025-12-11

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Bolivian Studies Journal Vol. 31, 2025

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