The Beloved Filth. Urban Memory in Franco’s Work
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https://doi.org/10.24215/24516643e004Keywords:
Memory, filth, Fernell Franco, cities, Latin AmericaAbstract
This is an essay about the work of theColombian photographer Fernell Franco(1942-2006) which arises from its associationwith the concepts of memory and dirt. Itanalyzes how peculiarly it highlights a socialhistoricalprocess that defines us as LatinAmericans: the Eurocentric progress breakingthe entire essence of our cities. It outlinesthe contrast between an aseptic esthetichorizon connected to the hegemonic estheticoppression and a protection of the filthy asresistance to what is forgotten for being oldfashioned, non productive.References
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