Angels of memory: photography and haunting in Guatemala City

Abstract

This article explores the relationship between historical memory, urban space, and photography by way of a case study: the place-specific public art of the Guatemalan photographer and human rights activist, Daniel Hernández-Salazar.

Landscape Photography, Geographic Education, and Nation‐Building In Democratic Kampuchea, 1975–1979

“…Geographers and other social scientist have made important contributions to the role of photography in bearing witness to the unimaginable horrors that consumed much of the twentieth century (Hoelscher ). Photography, in this sense, provides a crucial evidentiary role.…”

“…After an initial assessment whereby we classified photographs by principle activities depicted‐‐‐for example shelter, cooking, agricultural labor‐‐‐we selected six photographs as exemplars for this paper . In so doing, our research is positioned within a longer tradition of cultural‐political geography that has examined the use of landscape photographs as political instruments (Schwartz ; Herb ; Hoelscher , ; Jokela ; Alderman and Modlin ; Jokela and Linkola ).…”

Assessing Modernization In Honduran Landscapes Using Repeat Photography

“…Due largely to the routes that West traveled, this study focuses more specifically on the western mountainous region of Honduras. Deeper investigations into the use and practice of photography, such as those by Joan Schwartz and James Ryan (2003), Peter Hales (2005), and Steven Hoelscher () would likely reveal much about Robert West and what he photographed and why. That approach, however, is beyond the scope of this work.…”

Sí Hubo Genocidio: Anthropologists and the Genocide Trial of Guatemala's Ríos Montt

“…The image, created by Guatemalan photographer Daniel Hernández‐Salazar, has been used in processes of memory and street protest over the last 15 years. For more on its role in activism and to view the image and others in its series, see Gonzalez and Hoelscher .…”