Brutal, vibrant and creative: capturing the soul of Latin America in 100 photographs
The Guardian • • world
Key Points:
- Paulo Antonio Paranaguá’s new book, História da América Latina em 100 Fotografias, presents a transnational visual history of Latin America, emphasizing its cultural richness alongside its tumultuous political past.
- Paranaguá rejects traditional national narratives, instead highlighting connected global histories that include Indigenous civilizations, colonization, slavery, migration, and even non-Latin Caribbean regions.
- The book uses photography to explore cultural, social, and anthropological dimensions of Latin America, showcasing lesser-known perspectives such as female soldiers in the Mexican Revolution and the Mirabal sisters’ resistance to dictatorship.
- Paranaguá’s extensive archival research reveals enduring legacies of fascism, inequality, and violence in Latin America, linking historical events to contemporary far-right
