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The work places in discussion two case studies dealing with photography as an object and tool for the analysis of the Argentine provinces of Chaco and Corrientes. The first examines the representations of the body in pictures of indigenous and chaqueños of mid-20th century and the current responses of a Chaco indigenous group regarding such images. The second deals with the practices of religiosity in pictures of correntinas municipalities obtained between the 20th and 21st centuries, complemented by an ethnographic work in current festivities. The analysis of different photographers on the one hand and the use of such corpuses as memories shutter (relieved by oral registration) on the other, reveals common aspects to both studies: the scope and limits of the picture to convene the past and affect the present reaffirming community, ethnic and religious belongings of the Argentine Northeast. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]