Landscape and Identity in the Andean Mountains: Literature and Photography

Abstract

The Andean landscape has been a constant present not only in peruvian art and literature, but also in the national discourses of social identity. The consolidation of an Andean landscape coincides with the early development of Photography, as well as with the start of tourism at the turn of the 20th century, but also with the movement of Indigenismo. This paper argues that the consolidation of the Andean Landscape as well as the image of the Indio in the works of Martin Chambi, although different in many aspects to those of the limeño writers José De la Riva Agüero and Mariano Iberico, are, at the same time, similar: a-historical images of the indigenous identity in the Andean region of Perú.