"Children of overwhelm. Memory and oblivion of war in contemporary Spanish photography" proposes a reading of the history of contemporary Spanish photography since the Civil War and its mark on the aesthetic options of three generations marked by silence, oblivion and the memory. It is a memory lent to the grandchildren determined to remember with images the history that their grandparents kept silent and their parents decided to forget.
The essay reflects on and compares the Spanish case with the management of other wars and collective traumas such as the Shoah, the 11M memorial and post-dictatorships such as Argentina, Uruguay or Chile. How to approach the museumization of pain, the phenomenon of historical recreations, photography as visual archaeology, the difficulties and limitations faced in articulating a story with images and texts or the family album as a narrative model, are some of the branches that make up this tree.
Author: Antonio Anson
Format: 13 x 19 cm
Binding: Rustic with flaps
Pages: 176
Spanish Language
