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SUMMARY:The 'Missing' Picture in the Family Album. Photographic Essays by 
 the Children of the Victims of State Terrorism in Argentina (1976-1983) - 
 Jordana Blejmar
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CONTACT:T.S. Thompson
DESCRIPTION:‘People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent p
 icture takers (…) Proust misconstrues that photographs are not so much a
 n instrument of memory as an invention of it or its replacement’ wrote S
 usan Sontag in On Photography (1979). Given these observations the popular
 ity that photography has enjoyed among the children of the disappeared dur
 ing the 1976-1983 Argentine dictatorship is unsurprising. In order to fill
  up the empty space left by the tragedy\, these children challenge the pas
 t and confront received heritage by constructing an alternative and non-ex
 istent family album. Using mainly family photos (instead of ID pictures) i
 n their artworks\, these young artists aim to create an affective memory f
 ocusing on the private sphere. By doing so\, they challenge uses of photos
  carried out by other relatives of the disappeared\, such as the Madres de
  Plaza de Mayo\, which demand justice through the collectivization of vict
 ims. In addition\, these children avoid evoking their parents’ political
  practices and thus they distance themselves from the generation of the 19
 60s and 1970s\, for whom the private sphere – the family and personal as
 pirations – needed to be subsumed under the more important and urgent st
 ruggle for revolution conducted in the public space.
LOCATION:Entertaining Room\, Darwin College
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