Fotografía, violencia y memoria:

Sobre la exhibición de los cuerpos en la recuperación del cuartel de La Tablada. Un análisis a partir de la Edición Especial de la revista Gente (26/01/1989)

Abstract

The following article aims to explore the exposure of the bodies of MTP (Movimiento Todos por la Patria)’ militants during the attempted attack on the La Tablada’ regiment and its subsequent recovery by the FF. AA (January, 23-24, 1989). Based on the photographic material that was part of the Special Edition of Gente’ magazine (published a few days after the event), we will analyze here the representation of the bodies of the militants as surfaces of the exceptional exercise of political violence and the role of photography. We will observe both the role that photographic reproduction played in the "treatment of excess" of repressive violence (Blair, 2005) and the production of "images of truth" (Magrin, 2011) of human rights violations, used 30 years after as fundamental evidence in the life sentence of General Alfredo Arrillaga (case n° 2680/2009).