ABSTRACT
Fernando Brodsky was kidnapped on 14 August 1979, and taken to a detention camp, to ESMA, in fact. He remains disappeared. This chapter encounters Fernando; however, was an art exhibition at the Recoleta Cultural Centre in Buenos Aires in December 2006. There, Fernando's photograph hung, 'reframed', as it were, as part of an art exhibition curated by a United States (US) curator, entitled The Disappeared, that brought together work on its theme from across Latin America. Fernando's brother Marcelo, himself a photographer, had included this image of his younger brother in his contribution to the exhibition, and it appeared there, together with some grainy video footage and family photograph album images of Fernando. The negative of Fernando's photograph was smuggled out of ESMA by Victor Basterra who had also been kidnapped and made to work as a photographer there, and whom Marcelo later contacted.
