Instances of Agency: Julio Cordero’s Archive and Photographic Portraits

Jorge Coronado

Abstract


In this article, I discuss the notion of agency in relationship to Julio Cordero’s photographs.  Julio Cordero (1879-1961) owned a photography studio in La Paz in the first half of the twentieth century and produced an array of images both inside and outside of the studio. I also offer a sense of the rich documentation that exists in the complete Cordero archive as well as the insights that it opens up concerning the interventions in self-representation made possible by photographic portraiture.  Essentially, these interventions lead us to conceptualize image culture as a prime space for enacting agency in Bolivia and Latin American more broadly.


Keywords


agency; photography; portrait

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5195/bsj.2018.195

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