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Horacio Coppola : towards an aesthetic genealogy

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Date
2016
Author
Kefala, Eleni
Funder
Arts and Humanities Research Council
Grant ID
AH/J004790/1
Keywords
Alfredo Guttero (1882–1932)
José Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955)
Le Corbusier (1887–1965)
Horacio Coppola (1906–2012)
Argentina
New Vision
New Objectivity
Straight photography
Avant-garde
Buenos Aires
Latin America
1920s
1930s
DP Spain
F1201 Latin America (General)
T Technology
BDC
R2C
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Abstract
Although a milestone in the history of Latin American photography, the work of Horacio Coppola is little known outside Argentina. His unorthodox angles and tilting frames, his attention to industrial and urban themes, and his experimentation with different lenses in the period between 1927 and 1931 were in absolute synchrony with the precepts of European New Vision and New Objectivity photography, and with American straight photography. That Coppola’s visual idiom was in tune with the latest photographic developments in interwar Europe is obvious. What remains unclear is how exactly he achieved that synchrony. Several scholars have wrestled with this question, which nevertheless remains elusive due to lack of evidence of direct contact with European photography prior to his studies at the Berlin Bauhaus in 1932 and his repeated attempts to downplay the influence contemporary photographers had on his work. The article provides a systematic study of Coppola’s aesthetic genealogy and his photographic borrowings through a critical examination of his early pictures and theoretical writings. It teases out possible direct and indirect channels of dialogue with the New Vision, New Objectivity, and straight photography in the second half of the 1920s, and probes the reasons behind Coppola’s reluctance to admit a connection with contemporary European photography in particular.
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Kefala , E 2016 , ' Horacio Coppola : towards an aesthetic genealogy ' , History of Photography , vol. 40 , no. 4 , pp. 388-412 . https://doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2016.1236887
Publication
History of Photography
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2016.1236887
ISSN
0308-7298
Type
Journal article
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© 2016, Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at www.tandfonline.com / http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2016.1236887
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Funding: Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) under Grant AH/J004790/1.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/13979

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