El soberano óptico: la formación visual del poder

Authors

  • Carlos Ossa Universidad de Chile

Abstract

The Chilean State expanded during the XIX century and beginnings of the XX not only appealing to legal and institutional basis, but also by proposing a series of visual models that would regulate the social and public life. In this context, the photographic images played a intermediary role by uniting a baroque vision of power with a positivist conception of order. The result of that union was the visual construction of the nation.

Keywords:

photography,, power, State, Baroque