PHOTOGRAPHY AND MEMORY: REPRESENTATIONS OF THE URBAN PROJECT ON THE PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS, CHILE, 1930-1950

Abstract

Photography has intensively participated in the construction of the urban imaginary of cities. Photography's relation to urban memory suggests the existence of appearances rather than realities captured in public spaces, particularly, in those appearing in the 30s and 40s in Santiago, Chile. By having studied six magazines from those decades, it is possible to create a visual speech describing those appearances that, at the same time, unveil the predominance of the urban project and the architectonic piece of more than one block size above the idea of a plan, being the latter understood as a structured exercise in the space and projected in time.