The Insubordination of Photography

""Donoso Macaya offers an engaging, multidisciplinary, and well-researched analysis of Chile under the Pinochet dictatorship and in the process contributes to understanding the complexity and political implications of photography.""--Choice ""A necessary, timely, and original book. . . . Donoso Macaya skillfully and carefully has traced the ways photographs travel, incite public discussion, move from one setting to another, andtransform.""--H-Net ""Enriches the existing literature on the Chilean dictatorship by taking seriously the social and political power of photography. . . . Excellent and necessary.""--Latin Americanist ""Through a series of emblematic case studies, the book makes a powerful argument about the multi-faceted visual and social impact of photography under repressive rule. . . . Its immense value lies in the way [Donoso Macaya] traces the social history of photographers who pushed the performative dimension of photography to challenge the dictatorship in various forms.""--Journal of Social History ""A valuable addition to the literature examining the social construction and performativity of images as well as the use of photography as a civil practice, areas that are essential to understanding the political uses and consequences of protest photography.""--The Americas ""A very thoroughly researched and original contribution to studies of Chilean visual culture.""--Bulletin of Spanish Studies