Photographing the Habitats of Objects

Abstract

The article uses the controversial exhibition 'Ricas y famosas' (New York, 2001) by Mexican photographer Daniela Rossell as the starting point for an examination of the role of objects in the construction and visual representation of habitat. It considers some causes and implications of the scandal surrounding the exhibition, its much-debated ethnographic dimension, the significance of the family links and political affiliation of the female friends and relatives who figure there, and their use of artifice, objects, and serial objectification in the affirmation of identity. The analysis shuttles between two traditionally distinct discourses — that of personal and that of political identifications — in order to highlight how this idiosyncratic family album might help to reconcile the demands of individual subjectivity with those of democratic subjecthood.

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