Photographs 1930–1943 begins with a question: if Robert Frank’s The Americans transformed the history of photography, how much of its recognition depended on the context in which it was produced and legitimised? Drawing on photographs from Argentine public archives, the book imagines another possibility: that this way of seeing had already existed in a peripheral country such as Argentina.
The selected photographs predate The Americans. Through editing and sequencing, the project brings to light unexpected formal affinities and challenges a history of photography shaped by its centres of cultural legitimisation.
At the same time, the book offers a chronicle of everyday life in Buenos Aires during the 1930s, in contrast to the modernist representations of the period, while reflecting on urban experience during the Infamous Decade, a period marked by political instability and widespread electoral fraud.

Asunción Casa Editora
300 copies. 2021
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