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Geronimo Vargas Aignasse, 28 Years Old, Congressman

Date

1996

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Culture

Argentinian

Department

Photographs

Institution

Getty Museum

Object ID

394ef6ea-c952-44f4-96bf-f6f8a4b5cd47

Portrait of a man wearing a suit, standing with his hands clasped in front of him. On the wall behind him is a large painting and a crucifix, both hanging over an ornate desk and chair. This photograph is from a series of portraits of the sons and daughters of people who disappeared during the 1976 -1978 military dictatorship in Tucumán. The artist let the protagonists, who now were approximately the same age as their parents when they disappeared, decide the location and the objects presented in the portraits. The series shows the special connection of the sons and daughters with the photographs of their parents that have become relics of their memory.

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