This course will approach the political genealogies and implications of the global circulation of images through the perspective of Latin American studies, drawing examples from the colonial period to the present. The readings will focus on photographic medium, although we will also discuss other examples throughout the course. We will examine the main contributions of Latin American artists, writers, and scholars to the methodological and theoretical debates in the field of visual culture. Additionally, we will examine how visual practices, languages, and archives shed new light on central themes in Latin American studies, such as colonial image wars, technologies of racialization and surveillance, violence and memory, Indigenous and environmental activism, literature, and photography. Ultimately, we will focus on how each of these topics allows us to think of images not in isolation, but entangled with bodies, commodities, ideas, and the material structures and networks that enable their circulation to take place.