The historical det

For 154 years, no one paid attention to the far right of an old family photograph taken on a Jalisco hacienda in the 19th century. The portrait showed a well-to-do family posing elegantly in a carefully designed garden. Everything seemed to fit with the visual codes of the time: rigidity, symmetry and ostentation.
However, almost out of the frame, there remained a figure that no one looked at… until now.

The curator’s finding

Ricardo Salazar, curator of historical photography at the Regional Museum of Guadalajara, had been cataloguing old images for more than two decades when he received a peculiar donation: a box with photographs of landowner families, dated between 1860 and 1880.
As he reviewed one of them more closely, something troubled him. On the right edge of the portrait, separated from the family group, appeared a dark-skinned girl, dressed in work clothes. He didn’t pose like the others. He did not belong to the center of the scene.

ail that went unnoticed in an old portrait after a visual approach.

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