Usos y significados del retrato femenino en la prensa guatemalteca,1890-1924. Hacer historia social con imágenes: una propuestametodológica

At the end of the 19th century, the photographic image was incorporated into the world of print and new markets opened to market printed works as well as images. The selection of which images to publish and their meaning was a decision mediated by the social conventions of the time, notions of race and gender, the class aspirations of intellectual elites, and a national identity project. This article proposes to analyze the visual economy of female portraiture in Guatemala published in illustrated magazines between 1900 and 1920. The objective is to analyze the visual discourses about Guatemalan women and present a methodological proposal for the analysis of photographic images.