Photographic Author and a Workman for Progress: Notes on the Work by Christiano Junior in Argentina

Abstract

The present essay analyses some aspects of the work by Christiano Junior in Argentina, particularly in the city and the state of Buenos Aires in the late 1870s, following two lines of analysis. On the one hand this essay aims at linking Christiano Junior’s work to the idea of progress that pervades the end of that century, the entrepreneurship, the mentalities and accounts (including photography). On the other, Junior’s work is analyzed from the perspective of the idea tout court, as it seems to concentrate the image of the photographer over himself in relation to his activity and production.