Santiago del Chile, 1973
Marcelo Montecino, Hector López, Claudio Pérez, Juan Carlos Cáceres
IMA / Agence VU
This exhibition looks back on the work of four Chilean photographers. It spans the period 11 September 1973 to 11 March 1990, the day the country’s President was first elected democratically since Salvador Allende.
Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile was perhaps the period most frequently photographed in Latin America. We have all seen these pictures that have since become icons, such as that of the dictator wearing sunglasses. Yet all these photos were taken by foreign correspondents.
The images presented by Marcelo Montecino, Hector López, Claudio Pérez and Juan Carlos Cáceres illustrate the Chileans’ daily acts of resistance - they show the view from the inside.
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These are pictures the world has never seen before. They offer a glimpse of the first few hours after the coup, then the years of harsh repression that followed, through to the return of democracy. Today, thirteen years since 11 September 1973, when the the dictator and many other protagonists are still alive, can the country genuinely embark on a new phase in its history ?
Rodrigo Gómez / IMA
