Traces of the Unseen: Photography, Violence, and Modernization in Early Twentieth-Century Latin America (Volume 43)

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Date: March 16, 2025

Carolina Sá Carvalho, "Traces of the Unseen: Photography, Violence, and Modernization in Early Twentieth-Century Latin America (Volume 43) "
English | ISBN: 0810145413 | 2023 | 328 pages | PDF | 42 MB

Winner of the 2024 Roberto Reis Book Award
Winner of the LASA Environment Section Best Book of 2023
Winner of the LASA Amazonian Studies Section Best Book of 2024
Co-Winner of the LASA Book Award for the Visual Culture Studies 2024


A richly illustrated examination of photography as a technology for documenting, creating, and understanding the processes of modernization in turn-of-the-century Brazil and the Amazon

Photography at the turn of the twentieth century was not only a product of modernity but also an increasingly available medium to chronicle the processes of modernization.

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