Digital Diaspora Family Reunion will be presenting at the “Out of the Archive: Photography, Patrimony, and Performance in Latin America” Symposium at Dartmouth College April 14-15, 2016, organized by Silvia Spitta, Dartmouth Professor of Spanish and of comparative literature and Robert E. Maxwell 1923 Professor of Arts and Sciences .
Out of the Archives – Into the Streets, showcases Silvia Spitta’s two-year collaboration with the Martín Chambi Archive. Thanks to a Dean of the Faculty Scholarly Innovation Grant, the project enabled the digitization of thousands of previously unseen glass plates, culminating with the city-wide exhibit El Cusco de Martín Chambi, in which thirty-two of Chambi’s iconic images were enlarged and set up in the streets. Argentine photographer Julio Pantoja documented the exhibit with the photographs included in this exhibit.
Martín Chambi (1891-1973) is one of Latin America’s most renowned photographers. A Quechua-speaking native born in a small village in the vicinity of Lake Titicaca, Chambi considered himself the “representative of his race” and aspired to capture the entire gamut of life in the southern Peruvian Andes. Critics celebrate his exquisite and dramatic photographs of Machu Picchu and other archaeological sites, as well as his photographic manipulation of light and chiaroscuro that have earned him the title “painter of light.”
Out of the Archives – Into the Streets, curated by Professor Silvia Spitta, Jill Baron, and Dennis Grady, is offered in conjunction with Out of the Archive: Photography, Patrimony, and Performance in Latin America, an international conference generously sponsored by the Leslie Humanities Center, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Associate Dean of the Arts and Humanities, the Hood Museum of Art, and the Native American Studies Program, April 14-15, 2016. Exhibit design by Dennis Grady.
As part of this symposium, Digital Diaspora Family Reunion invites you to share your images of the LATIN AMERICA DIASPORA on our Facebook Group:
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