Estudios iconológicos en la prensa ilustrada del siglo XIX. El Álbum de la guerra de Paraguay y la visualidad de "lo igualmente visible" /ICONOLOGICAL STUDIES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPERS. THE ALBUM OF THE PARAGUAYAN WAR AND THE VISUALITY OF "THE EQUALLY VISIBLE"/ESTUDOS ICONOLÓGICOS NA PRENSA ILUSTRADA NO SÉCULO XIX. O ÁLBUM DA GUERRA DO PARAGUAI E A VISUALIDADE "DO IGUALMENTE VISÍVEL"

At the beginning of 1893 the illustrated newspaper Álbum de la guerra del Paraguay made its first appearance in the Argentinean visual media arena. The Álbum tried to illuminate the events of the war that the war events that took place during the Paraguayan War (1864-1870), through the testimonies of soldiers who bore witness to the destruction of the country. Organized as a heterogeneous collection of images and texts, it became one of the biggest visual and textual archives of the international conflict. Via an iconological analysis, in this article I explore the relationship between visual and textual regimens of war representation. By deploying a visual arrangement in which texts and images are equally visible, equally legible (i.e. the visuality of the "equally visible"), I claim that the Álbum leads us towards a new way of understanding the limits of war representation at the end of the nineteenth century.