The City: An Inverse Outlook

Abstract

In the dictionary, inverse can mean a form of inference in which a new proposition is formed whose subject is the opposite of the original proposition. This is the sense in which I refer to the inverse outlook, that which manifests opposition while the habitual and hegemonic outlook loses its naming force. Analyzing the inverse outlook from photos taken by a group of young Huicholes¹ during their first trip to a city allows us to observe visual choices portraying the city from an reverse angle; where we ourselves are the others and the photographers are indigenous people. The work I show here is from a trip made by 31 youths between the ages of 13 and 15, who left their village of San Miguel Huaixtita headed for the city of Guadalajara (Corona, 2012) with the object of “researching” the city and its urban Mexican residents.

Keywords

city / outlook / inverse / photographs / Mexico / Huicholes

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