Fixing Shadows: Contemporary Peruvian Photography, 1968-2015

Until July 3, the Blanton Museum of Art presents the exhibition titled "Fixing Shadows: Contemporary Peruvian Photography, 1968-2015," an exhibition featuring over forty photographs from a transformational period of artistic growth, political unrest, and social participation in Peru. The exhibition explores temporal frameworks: the first, based on works from the Photography Collection of the Ransom Center and from the William P. Wright Collection of Peruvian Photography, and centered on an important generation of photographers working in Peru during the 1970s and 1980s; and, the second, based on recent acquisitions by the Blanton Museum, explores the influence of photographers from the 1970s and 1980s on the artistic practices of a younger generation of artists from the 1990s to the present. As a group, the collections offer the chronology of the history of Peruvian photography from the last five decades, a period of time that witnessed changes of attitudes towards the function of the photographic medium in connection to the art and the social justice in Peru since 1968. Some of the photographers included in the exhibition are: Roberto Fantozzi, Mariella Agois, Billy Hare, Carlos Domínguez, Jaime Rázuri, Milagros de la Torre, Flavia Gandolfo, Luz Maria Bedoya, Pablo Hare, Edi Hirose, Gilda Mantilla, Raimond Chavez.