La violencia en Colombia: Reconstrucción y análisis visual de la colección fotográfica del libro de Germán Guzmán Campos

Abstract

The photographs of the book Violence in Colombia, study of a social process and descriptive part 1962-1968, are paradigmatic in the field of the production of both verbal and visual meanings of political violence of the 40s, 50s and 60s basically because Following Pécaut in social practice from 1947: "(...) Violence, is not just a series of events; it is the irruption of a new modality of the political ". (Pécaut, 1987, p.523). These images of Violence contribute to shaping the "outside" of the social, the bodies and spoils of peasants concretize in part that exterior of the social that becomes visible in them. Men, women and children or what remains of them, after facing the power of an irrational confrontation, are confused with accidents of the Colombian landscape, materializing the barbarism. In the field of visual production in Colombia, the magnitude of the impact that said publication caused is determinant, so much so that it is possible to understand it as a visual commotion. María Margarita Malagón will say about it that "(...) from the photographs published in that book, the representation of the body was never again the same in the field of Colombian art. (Malagón-Kurka, 2010).