"This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition América Latina 1960-2013 presented at the Foundation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Paris, France from November 19, 2013 to April 6, 2014 and at the Museo Amparo in Puebla, Mexico from May 15 to September 17, 2014."

Includes bibliographical references.

The violence of modernity: Latin America since the late 1950s / text by Olivier Compagnon -- 1. Territory -- 2. The city -- Imagination redirected: photography and text in Latin America 1960-2013 / text by Luis Camnitzer -- 3. Informing, resisting -- 4. Memory and identity -- New pictographs, ancient palimpsests: notes on the scribal uses of photography in Latin America / text by Alfonso Morales Carrillo -- 5. Revuelta(s): a film / by Fredi Casco, codirected by Renate Costa -- Timeline: a half century of Latin American histories 1960-2013 / by Olivier Compagnon -- Biographies A-Z / Carolina Ariza.

Focusing on the relationship between text and the photographic image, the exhibition América Latina 1960-2013 reveals the extraordinary diversity of photographic practices employed by numerous Latin American artists over the past fifty years, a period marked by great political, economic, and social instability. During this period, many artists combined in their work text and the photographic image, using a wide range of media such as silkscreen, collage, performance, and video. This provided them with an effective way of communicating in times of political urgency and also allowed them to explore ideas related to territory, memory, and identity. Including a selection of around five hundred works, the exhibition América Latina 1960-2013 and its accompanying catalog provide the visitor with the opportunity to delve into the history of the continent and reveal the specificity and great diversity of artistic practices in the region. From back cover.