A Lecture by Gabriel Lesser (PhD candidate in UC Berkeley's Spanish and Portuguese Department)
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Speaker/Performer Name
Gabriel Lesser
Uptown Campus
Howard-Tilton Memorial Library
The Latin American Library Seminar Room, 4th floor
What can a photograph tell us about the commercialization of race and media in 19th-century Latin America? By tracing the image’s journey as it got copied, distorted, inverted, and captioned, this talk analyzes why this specific photo became a transnational and transatlantic object of fascination.
Sponsored by the Latin American Library and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Tulane University
