Since its birth in the mid-19th century, photography has fascinated and revolutionized the ways we understand art, time, and both intimate and public history. Due to its privileged ability to record the present and its impressive current digital proliferation, reflecting on photography is a key to understanding the times we live in. In this book, journalist Daniel Rozas engages in a dialogue with eighteen photographers from different generations, painting a panorama of contemporary Chilean photography through their perspectives. Combining a biographical, analytical, and technical approach, each voice provides a sensitive perspective on Chile's history over the last fifty years, the peculiarities of the craft, and the aesthetics that are in tension: from the magic induced by the darkroom to the immediacy of the digital era; from the use of black and white and color; from documentary to abstract photography; from capturing fashion, nature, everyday history, and politics; from the birth of the AFI; the valorization of social networks; visual education through prints, art reproductions, images from Life or National Geographic magazines; the influence of Cartier-Bresson, the Magnun agency, Sally Mann, Sergio Larraín, Roberto Edwards; how to educate the gaze, and the relevance of the image today.

Photographers featured in the book include Julia Toro, Luis Poirot, Claudio Bertoni, Juan Domingo Marinello, Leonora Vicuña, Jorge Brantmayer, Nicolás Piwonka, Álvaro Hoppe, Pin Campaña, Miguel Ángel Felipe Fidalgo, Francisca Reyes, Tomás Munita, Andrea Brunson, Zaida González, Carla McKay, Aune Ainson, Alejandro Olivares, and Valentina Osnovikoff.