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MARTINEZ DELGADO, Gerardo. Elite, Urban Project and Photography. An Approach to the City of Aguascalientes Through Images, 1880-1914. Secuencia [online]. 2007, n.67, pp.145-181. ISSN 2395-8464.  https://doi.org/10.18234/secuencia.v0i67.996.

The article proposes an exercise of historical research in which the main auxiliary source is photography, a little-used resource that warrants being broadly yet carefully used by researchers in any social discipline. The aim of the text is to seek elements to understand the Porfirian city, using the case of Aguascalientes, by interpreting photographic sources with theoretical and methodological suppositions that regard it as a reflection of the judgments and feelings of the person taking the photograph at the same time as they show material objects and situations that reflect a specific historical reality. Thus, the author presents data and specific new perspectives on the urban physiognomy and its changes but above all, at a higher level of interpretation, which enables one to understand more precisely the urban projects of the local elite, which combined with their class aspirations and the desire for representation and predominance provided by photography.

Palabras llave : History Graphic; photography; city; urban project; élite; Porfiriato; Aguascalientes.

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