Images of cultures of transport and infrastructure in South America, c. 1890-1930
Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: This article offers a panoramic view on the visual (re-) presentations of traffic, transport, and infrastructure in South America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The motives are classified y interpreted considering the discourses and visual contexts of the epoch. In addition to images of trains and stations, which are for sure the most prominent, views of ports, aerial views and views of urban and state infrastructure are presented. These images showed South America’s modernity and proved that the continent was not underdeveloped and backward.
Source: deSignis
Author: Hinnerk Onken
Language: English
Topic: Photographic and Visual Arts
Subfield: Museology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3168780761