Contemporary Latin American photography: postcolonial criticism and renewal of languages. The Brazilian case

In this article, we study the emergence of the Latin American Photography as a category towards the end the 1970s. A study about photographic practices that reflects an attempt to decolonialize the definitions and categories about photography made in Latin America. Since that moment, a new concept was set: it included Latin American photography and the representation of the Latin American being, its identity and shared history in the different nations of the region. A definition that changed in the 1990s, when we can observe a renewal of the ways of representation that make the approaches about the colonial past and the heterogeneity of our identities more complex. After a general analysis of the search for defining a cultural practice of Latin American photography from a postcolonial perspective, we will focus on the case of Brazilian photography during the above-mentioned period.