ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I am exploring the complex ways in which indigenous people are visually represented in one particular instance in contemporary Argentina. Encounters between Europeans and their descendants and indigenous people in Argentina, in colonial and post-colonial times (before and after 1812), are the result of a historical process which I shall outline briefly in the first section of the paper. I shall then suggest how these encounters – which entailed visual representations – were framed within ideas about gender and the nation state. In the main section of the paper I shall analyse the calendar Huellas (‘Traces’) produced for the year 2000 by the Argentine fashion photographer Gaby Herbstein.
