Humanist photography and the formation of a historiography on Latin-American photography

This article aims to analyse some aspects of the construction of a historiography about the so-called humanist photography, in parallel to the construction of a historiography about Latin-American photography. Both initiatives appeared in a more articulated manner between the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s. Beyond the discussion of specific photographic productions, the intent is to discuss the ways in which these productions were articulated inside discourses that sought to unify them. This study is a first attempt at systematizing some preliminary conclusions of an on-going research about different notions of humanism in photography, and how they appear in Latin-American photography.