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| Title: | From Street to Storage: 'Grupo de Fotografos Independientes' in the
Personal Archives of Armando Cristeto |
| Authors: | Birkhofer, Denise |
| Keywords: | photography
Mexico
Cristeto, Armando |
| Issue Date: | 14-Feb-2011 |
| Abstract: | This talk will relate my experiences working with the personal
photography archives of Armando Cristeto, a photographer and historian
living in Mexico City. Cristeto was a member of the photography
collective known as the Grupo de Fotografos Independientes, one of the
numerous cooperatives of artists known as Los Grupos proliferating
during the late 1970s in Mexico. Founded by Cristeto's brother Adolfo
Patino, the Fotografos sought to reach new audiences by taking their
exhibitions out onto the street, where their works could interact with
the urban context and be appreciated by new classes of people. Their
exhibitions were installed along the sidewalks of Mexico City, employing
clothesline to hang their photographic prints, or were even paraded
through the streets on wheeled carts. This ephemeral and interactive
method of display bordered on the performative, and carried an
institutional critique in the avoidance of traditional exhibition
venues. Due to the transient nature of the practices of the Fotografos
Independientes, research in 'hidden archives' like Cristeto's is
essential to understanding the group's production. This paper will
explore how the activities of the Fotografos can be reconstructed
through the assembly of photographic documentation preserved in
Cristeto's archives, including the images produced by the group's
members themselves in addition to photographic records of their
temporary exhibitions and events. This research comprises a part of my
doctoral dissertation, which considers the theme of 'the street' in
photography in Mexico City after 1968. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2451/29902 |
| Appears in Collections: | Photo Archives and the Photographic Memory of Art History, part III
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