On Fernando's Photograph: The Biopolitics of Aparición in Contemporary Argentina

Theory, Culture & Society

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 69-89

  Bell, Vikki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Argentina; art; biopolitics; detention camps; Foucault; images; memory; photography; shanty towns; the disappeared

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955225916     PISSN: 02632764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0263276409349657     Document Type: Article

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