La arquitectura del rostro ecuatoriano a través de la fotografía

Abstract

The characteristics of our command are marked by daily activities and work in their interrelationships with other individuals in their environment, one of the dimensions of the context is culture. Although there are many ways to understand culture, various authors support the idea that culture is a system of meanings and information that is transmitted over generations. «No real analysis allows, therefore, to capture the point at which the passage of the facts of nature to culture occurs, nor the mechanism of their articulation. The canon has universal validity, and the standard scale of the human head gives us a reliable guide for creating imaginary faces and prototypes, or for determining the first qualitative traces of a portrait. This excellent intellectual knowledge is accessible in practice, in practice it is the art, the reading of a country and those who can explain the traditional "what", "when" and "why". Ordinary people, those who live their own culture as an inseparable part of their existence, do nothing more than unknowingly practice the daily rituals of their own identity. The gradual changes experienced by the faces of the different technical individuals have been studied by various disciplines and men of science, more ours is to determine those features, the changes suffered and the creation of a formal, reliable source of information and exposure through photography, using the latter as an instrument to later make identities and historical changes in human faces. According to Barral (2002) the concept of a work of art establishes a distinction with that of craftsmanship. A work of art is conceived as a unique and unrepeatable piece, whose purpose is strictly aesthetic and not utilitarian. The term masterpiece, in the context of art and aesthetics, is generally reserved for those works, whether artistic or simply technical, considered, for whatever reason, as works particularly worthy of admiration. The origin of the term "masterpiece" dates back to the guilds of the Middle Ages in Europe, referring to a piece of craftsmanship made by any applicant who wished to acquire the title of master within the guild. Over time, this term became a synonym for magnum opus, that is, the work considered to be of greater value among all those produced by a craftsman, an artist or a writer. In the current sense of the term, "masterpiece" is increasingly used as a laudatory term, whether or not it refers to an author's best work. This is a professional concept of identity, which assumes that this essence defines us and will not change. With the foregoing, it is necessary to point out that, when referring to the characteristic features of the ethnic groups in the province of El Oro, Republic of Ecuador, they have their particularities and that to demonstrate these features it is necessary to use not only photography, but also some sciences such as anthropology, anthropometry, biology, anatomy, mathematics, etc. Which allows us to establish a direct relationship from the ethnic aboriginal to the current mestizo, we use mestizo to indicate that ethnic groups, classified by tribes, clans, settlements, undergo changes especially because of the place where they live, work and develop and mix with others groups.