Resumo

ETHINGTON, Philip J.. En conSecuencia con la imagen. Cronoscopía: la fotografía de la historia espacial de Los Ángeles y México.Traduzido porVania Galindo Juárez. Secuencia [online]. 2005, n.61, pp.200-222. ISSN 2395-8464.  https://doi.org/10.18234/secuencia.v0i61.900.

In this essay I explore the position that history, being spatial, is visible in photography and cartography. Socio-political "perspective" is a grounded metaphor: interpretations of the past are anchored to locations in global landscapes. History is the landscape of the present, coded into narratives about the past. The historian can expose the ghosts haunting the present through the method I call the "chronoscope" a visualization, combining indexical signs of photography with the interpretive and narrative action of verbal text and the connotative gestures of the fine arts. Stereographic photography contains the depth of history itself: the contemporary observer literally sees into the past. This depth of history is a challenge and rebuttal to the flatness of modernity's temporality. To explicate these theses, I focus the chronoscope to expose the historical ghosts linking two of the world's greatest metropolises, Los Angeles and Mexico City, with the history of revolution and counterrevolution during the years 1900-1930.

Palavras-chave : Urban geography; visuality; space; globalism; petroleum; Los Angeles; Mexico City; stereoscopy; photography; modernity; knowledge; Dr. Atl, Jose Vasconcelos, Edward Doheny..