• Authors: Juan Guardiola (Ed.).
  • Spanish | English
  • 84 932950-5-1
  • €40,00 | Hardcover | 26.6 x 24.1 cm | 230 page
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  • Casa Asia | Barcelona, ​​2006
  • National Museum of the Philippines, State Society for Foreign Cultural Action of Spain.
40€

This volume brings together photographic portraits and landscapes, coinciding with the appearance of photography in 1842 in the Philippines, most of them unpublished. All the images inform about that colonial society and the documentation they provide becomes an essential archive to know the history of this country from the inside. The author of the book, Juan Guardiola, reviews the history of photography in the Philippines during the 1989th century, understanding that this is an exceptional instrument for the reconstruction of the history of a country and a society that was part of the Hispanic world until 1898. Among the topics covered, the “Chiaroscuros of Colonialism”, “Mestizo identity”, “From the Cavite Mutiny to the conflict in the Carolinas”, “The Katipunan Revolution”, “XNUMX”, “The introduction of cinema” and “ The Philippine-American War.

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