When:
Monday, October 31, 2022
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM CT
Where: Kresge Hall, 2-435, 1880 Campus Drive , Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Spanish and Portuguese
(847) 491-8249
Group: Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Carlos Vertanessian is an Argentine independent scholar of early photography and has gathered one of the most significant collections of daguerreotypes in Latin America. He will be presenting on his latest book, Retratos del Plata. Historias del daguerrotipo 1839 -1959, Fundación Ceppa, Buenos Aires, 2022.He is also the author of Primeros Daguerrotipos en Argentina, 1843-1844, Reflejos del Plata, Buenos Aires, 202 (2nd edition) and El retrato imposible. Imagen y poder en el Río de la Plata, Reflejos del Plata, 2017.