Can images influence history? Are they true evidence of the past? This compilation appears in the light of the renewed interest showed by the discipline of history and human sciences in interpreting isual sources as productions that were intentionally elaborated and disseminated in specific times and spaces. Moving away from an innocent and contemplative view, the authors of the book, through their contributions, propose to place the social function of images at the center of their case analyses, which cover a broad set of Latin American processes that took place between the 19th and the 21st centuries in countries such as Chile, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, and Argentina. Thus, each chapter invites the reader to “visually think” about issues such as political propaganda, nation building, the assemblage of identities or collective memories, etc., based on the methodological assumption that suggests tracking images from their production to their reception, where they acquire multiple meanings in their respective presents, as well as in their current preservation status.