Otra imagen para la modernización urbana de la Argentina. El álbum fotográfico Rosario, esa ciudad en los años setenta

Abstract

This article studies the photo book Rosario, esa ciudad (1970), published by the Editorial Biblioteca de la Biblioteca Vigil. Based on this corpus, the paper analyzes how these images construct another narrative about the modernization of Rosario in the 1970s. Although these photographs propose a montage of images and words, the aim of the work is to compare them with each other in order to construct views and interpretations that question the center-periphery binomial. First, we develop a critical review of photography as a resource for highlighting urban transformation. Then, we analyze how this set of captures records modernization and configures an alternative urban imagination. Finally, we problematize the hegemonic narratives of urban modernization and their contradictions or complements: traditional, peripheral, popular and segregated.