SITAC The Families of All of Us

Thursday, March 17th

The Families of All of Us

The title evokes MoMA's emblematic photographic exhibition The Family of Man and its global tour (1955-63) as a starting point to reflect on documentary photography, its relationship with humanism, and its ideological purposes and functions. Although many continue to work in this tradition, the photography promoted by Edward Steichen seventy years ago, today finds itself in a crisis with no easy way out, with its veracity and purposes questioned, and its ethical foundations criticized. International forums and events such as Visible Evidence have become sites for critical studies of the image. In Mexico, indigenist photography traditions are being challenged and subjected to rigorous scrutiny. New generations of photographers and image thinkers, informed by feminism, identity politics debates, gender and race theories, Marxism and cultural studies in general, are proposing new models for a non-extractive, activist, critical and participatory photography.

Program

14:00 Welcome and introduction to conference

Jesse Lerner, Rubén Ortiz Torres, Aimée Labarrere de Servitje

14:30 / 15:15 Keynot address

Abigail Solomon-Godeau

Itala Schmelz, moderator

15:40 / 17:00 The Families of All of Us

Lorena Gómez Mostajo

Antonio Molina

Natalia Majluf

Itala Schmelz, moderator