[Commlist] New edited collection - Familiar Faces: Photography, Memory and Argentina’s Disappeared

New book
*/Familiar Faces: Photography, memory and Argentina’s disappeared 
<https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781913380762/familiar-faces/> /*

Published by Goldsmiths Press

/Familiar Faces/offers a diverse, theoretically rich, and empirically 
informed exploration of photography in Argentina’s memorial, political, 
and artistic landscape.

During the country’s most recent civic-military dictatorship 
(1976–1983), 30,000 people were disappeared or killed by the state. Over 
the decades, vernacular and professional photographs have been central 
to the Argentine struggle for justice. They were used not only to 
protest the disappearances under the dictatorship and to denounce the 
authorities, but also as tools of political and social activism, and for 
remembering the disappeared.

With contributions from leading Argentina-based anthropologists, 
ethnographers, curators, art scholars, media researchers, and 
photographers, /Familiar Faces/ moves beyond the traditional 
considerations of representation, focusing instead on the ways in which 
photography is continuously reimagined as a tool of memory, mourning,
and political and judicial activism. In so doing, it considers the 
diverse uses of press photography; artistic practice; photographs of the 
disappeared in domestic rituals; photographs of the inmates of torture 
centers; the reclamation of images taken by the dictatorial state for 
memorial and activist purposes.

Written and published at a crucial moment in Argentine memory politics, 
/Familiar Faces/ offers a geographically and formally diverse selection 
of case studies, with international as well as regional resonance. While 
firmly rooted in this national context, the book contributes to wider, 
global debates about the increasingly pervasive role of the photographic 
image in relation to state-sponsored, large-scale violence.

“From the very best writers on photography in Argentina, and brimming 
with insightful reflections, this elegant collection will doubtless 
generate and guide further discussions on the endlessly fascinating role 
of photography in the post-dictatorship period.”

-Professor Vikki Bell, author of /The Art of Post-Dictatorship: Ethics 
and Aesthetics in Transitional Argentina/

“Familiar Faces is a stunning collection of essays and interviews about 
the role of photography in remembering, protesting and reimagining the 
forced disappearances in Argentina under the military dictatorship.”

-Dr Zoë Norridge, Reader in Comparative Literature and Visual Cultures, 
King’s College London

The book can be ordered here: 
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781913380762/familiar-faces/ 
<https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781913380762/familiar-faces/>

For review copies, contact (goldsmithspress /at/ gold.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(goldsmithspress /at/ gold.ac.uk)>


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