{"id":1667,"date":"2021-08-23T12:37:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T11:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/?p=1667"},"modified":"2022-05-16T15:43:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T14:43:36","slug":"machu-picchu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/cabinet\/artificialia\/machu-picchu\/","title":{"rendered":"Machu Picchu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ubiquity of this image of Machu Picchu means that the remains of the retreat of the ninth Sapa Inca Pachacuti, who ruled from 1438 to 1471, no longer require a caption. Mention Machu Picchu today and people immediately picture it: a jutting rock spire prominently presiding over a floor of ruins. First photographed by Hiram Bingham in 1911, today over a million tourists take its snapshot each year. When Bingham first visited Machu Picchu and took this photo, he did not know what he had seen. It was not until the publication of the 1913 National Geographic issue entitled \u2018In the Wonderland of Peru\u2019 that Bingham realised the magnitude and potential interest of what he had photographed. Although today we often think of a photograph as the result of one person\u2019s decision to click a screen or open and close a shutter, the making of this iconic New World image-object was the result of a specific configuration in time and space of antiquarian science, diplomacy, labour, camera technology, corporate sponsorship, and mass media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ubiquity of this image of Machu Picchu means that the remains of the retreat of the ninth Sapa Inca Pachacuti, who ruled from 1438 to 1471, no longer require a caption. Mention Machu Picchu today and people immediately picture it: a jutting rock spire prominently presiding over a floor of ruins. First photographed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-1667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificialia","tag-machu-picchu"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3887,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions\/3887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}