El imaginario colonial (eBook)

This is the first monographic exhibition on the introduction and development of photography in the Philippines during the nineteenth century. The term imaginary is not only used here as a reference to the symbolic landmarks shared by a given social group, but alludes to the nineteenth-century maker of images— the idea that has inspired this visual account of a history and a memory common to Spain and the Philippines. The show consists of photographs, most of them published here for the first time, from private and public Spanish collections that will be donated to the National Museum of the Philippines at the closure of the exhibition. These pictures evoke colonial society and Spanish cultural heritage in the islands, in particular the end of the Spanish rule and the emergence of policies of national identity that called for independence.

Edition in Spanish with an annex in English.