URBES MUTANTES – LATIN AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY
2014-08-25Urbes Mutantes: Latin American Photography 1944–2013 is a major survey of photographic movements in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela. Taking the “mutant,” morphing, and occasionally chaotic Latin American city as its focus, the exhibition draws particularly on street photography’s depictions of the city during decades of political and social upheaval. It is divided into sections that explore public space as a platform for protest, popular street culture, the public face of poverty, and other characteristics of the city as described in photographs. Dispensing with arbitrary distinctions between genres of photography—art photography, photojournalism, documentary—Urbes Mutantes points to the depth and richness of the extensive photographic history of the region.
Opposite – Paolo Gasparini, São Paulo, Brazil, 1972
Exhibition runs through to September 7th, 2014
International Center of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street
New York
NY 10036
