Empty Streets

IF 0.2 4区文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM

DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM Pub Date : 2022-09-29 DOI:10.1353/dia.2021.0028

K. O’Neill, James Rodríguez

引用次数: 2

Abstract

Abstract:This visual essay invites renewed reflection on the iconography of the people. In the spring of 2020, Guatemala's President Alejandro Giammattei prohibited citizens from leaving their homes to help contain the spread of the novel coronavirus known as Covid-19. Doing little to manage the spread of the virus, these curfew events gave new aesthetic and political meaning to a familiar visual genre: photographs of empty streets. For more than a century, and especially in the summer of 2020, images of crowds and mass protests have provided both governments on the one hand, and protesting multitudes on the other with an aesthetic representation of the people. But this interest in collective assemblies has tended to engage only one side of the equation. To fully appreciate the visual power of the people, it is also necessary to understand those images from which people are strikingly absent.

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空荡荡的街道

摘要：这篇视觉文章引起了人们对人物肖像画的重新思考。2020年春天，危地马拉总统亚历杭德罗·贾姆马蒂禁止公民离开家园，以帮助遏制被称为新冠肺炎的新型冠状病毒的传播。这些宵禁活动对控制病毒传播几乎没有什么作用，为一种熟悉的视觉类型赋予了新的美学和政治意义：空荡荡的街道照片。一个多世纪以来，尤其是在2020年夏天，人群和大规模抗议的图像一方面为政府和抗议人群提供了人民的审美代表。但这种对集体集会的兴趣往往只涉及等式的一方。为了充分欣赏人们的视觉力量，还必须理解那些人们明显缺席的图像。

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