 | Fernando Brodsky, whose picture began this slideshow, was the younger brother of Marcelo, who has helped shape the emerging debate in Argentina over how to memorialize the disappeared. This is his class photo, taken in 1967. The image is what Brodsky, who went into political exile in the '70s, calls a "photographic intervention"—he rephotographed and blew up the original photo, annotating it as one might a yearbook. Some of the circled faces are those who were forced into exile; those in red are two classmates who were disappeared. Basterra, the photographer who smuggled out Fernando's photo, was able to visit with a few prisoners in ESMA one day, thanks to the "complicity" of a guard, as Brodsky tells it the anthology Memory Under Construction. "What is going to happen to us?" they asked Basterra, who didn't know the answer. "Just don't let them get away with it," they told him, before disappearing back into their cells. |  |
Marcelo Brodsky, The Companions/Los Compaños, from Buena memoria (Good Memory), 1997. Image courtesy the artist and El Museo del Barrio, New York. |
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