Abstract

SOLANO-ROA, Juanita. Photoramas: Jorge Obando and Panoramic Photography During the 1930s in Colombia. Hist. Soc. [online]. 2022, n.43, pp.69-91.  Epub Aug 22, 2022. ISSN 0121-8417.  https://doi.org/10.15446/hys.n43.99707.

Since the 1930s, Colombian photographer Jorge Obando began to take photographs using a Cirkut Eastman Kodak camera. This camera, capable of rotating 360° on its axis, enabled him to develop a new type of photography producing panoramic images that captured a moment of transition towards modernity in Colombia. This article examines the relationship between the format of these photographs and Obando's subjects. Panoramic photography -an evolution of the pictorial panorama invented by Irishman Robert Barker in 1787- is inseparable from the power relations established by the medium that was born in the 18th century. Likewise, the repetition of motifs and subjects captured by Obando are intrinsic to the emerging modernity that appeared in Colombia during the 1930s. Obando's lens captured those moments of transition through a technique and a format that reproduced and reinforced the visual discourse of the images. Through an analysis of some of his photographs, this article investigates and makes evident these little-explored relationships in his work.

Keywords : panorama; photography; panoramic photography; photographic equipment; social representation; urban areas; urban history; war; landscape; panoptic; modernization; industrialization; Jorge Obando; Colombia; Latin America; 20^th century.

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