Familiar Faces offers a diverse, theoretically rich, and empirically informed examination of photography's role in Argentina's memorial, political, and " artistic landscape. During the country's most recent civic-military dictatorship (1976-1983), 30,000 people were disappeared or killed by the state. Over the decades, domestic and professional photographs have been central to the Argentine struggle for justice. With contributions from leading Argentine anthropologists, ethnographers, curators, art scholars, media researchers, and photographers. Familiar Faces moves beyond the traditional considerations of representation, focusing instead on the ways in which photography is continuously reimagined as a tool of memory, mourning, justice, and political activism. Written and published at a crucial moment in Argentine memory politics, Familiar Faces offers a geographically and formally diverse selection of case studies, with international as well as regional resonance.