The Dirty War Analysis

I consider myself more of a logical person rather than a creative person, but if you were to ask me what my most-liked type of art is Id answer with photography. A gifted or talented photographer can capture the beauty of things you would never contemplate containing beauty, for example, a long stairwell. Can you envision a stairwell having concealed beauty and meaning? most would probably say no. Fortunately for us, there are many talented photographers like Hugo Aveta, who are able to capture the beauty of anything, specifically abandoned historical places. Furthermore, there are museums that are dedicated to sharing these photographs like the Getty Museum and many others which invites people into different worlds through the lens of

According to Globalsecurity.org, "The Dirty War, from 1976-1983, was a seven-year campaign by the Argentine government against suspected dissidents and subversives. Many people, both opponents of the government as well as innocent people, were "disappeared" in the middle of the night. They were taken to secret government detention centers where they were tortured and eventually killed. These people are known as "los desaparecidos" or "the disappeared (GS)”. With that in mind, many hospitals, schools, and homes were broken into and destroyed due to the military taking over and gathering people to “disappear” them for opposing their

It just made me ask many questions about why the hospital was destroyed, and that sick people must have been there at one point. It gave me a feeling of loneliness, silence and the feeling that maybe many people who had already been suffering had to suffer more due to political clashes during Argentina’s dirty war. In Addition, also what attracted me to it was the focal point of the burnt paper and really made me think of the disorder with in the photo but also how organized the photograph that Hugo took. But who is Hugo Aveta? and what is his photography