Imagen y memoria. Argentina 1976-2003. Fotografías de Eduardo Longoni

Photographic exhibition by Argentine reporter Eduardo Longoni on the recent history of Argentina, from the repression of the last military dictatorship to the consolidation of democracy. It brings together documentary images taken on the street between the late 1970s and the early 2000s.

The exhibition brings together a selection of documentary images by Eduardo Longoni, a photographer who began his career in 1979 at the Noticias Argentinas agency, when he was working on the streets under the military regime. The photographs record political and social episodes in the country: the first marches of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo, acts of citizen resistance, episodes of police violence and the gradual return to democratic freedoms.

The route through the galleries of the Museo de América is organised around the value of photography as historical document and testimony. Curators Raquel Aznar and Lucía del Olmo have framed the collection as a reflection on the defence of human rights and the preservation of collective memory.

The exhibition falls in the year that marks fifty years since the 1976 coup d'état and opens a new research line at the museum, focused on the conflicts of the twentieth century that continue to weigh on Latin America today. It is designed for those who wish to explore recent Argentine history through the direct testimony of a photojournalist.