La Cultura Indígena en la Fotografía Mexicana de los 90s (ebook)

Argumento de La Cultura Indígena en la Fotografía Mexicana de los 90s (ebook)

Since its very beginning, Mexican photography has been an artistic genre dominated by non-indigenous people, whereas the indigenous culture has been a constant feature within photography. It was not until the 1990s that the first professional indigenous groups of photographers emerged. They not only had a great deal of success in Mexico, but also gained attention and recognition at international level. Their work was a valuable contribution to the vision of non-indigenous photographers who were known by then, and they brought a new direction to the presentation of the indigenous world in Mexican photography. I decided to directly compare both groups of artists in this doctoral thesis, in order to highlight the similarities and disparities in their work. For this purpose, I selected a group sufficiently represented within the abundant pool of non-indigenous photographic works and, for the indigenous people, I chose the photographers best known in the country. The essential part of my investigation process consisted of conducting more than fifty interviews, both with indigenous and non-indigenous photographers, as well as with several protagonists from the Mexican cultural environment. In the course of this investigation, I discovered which ethnic groups were most photographed at the end of the XX century, and I draw some conclusions regarding the future of indigenous photography in Mexico.0