Fontcuberta created his tribute by processing the results of a Google image search for the words “photo” and “foto” through photomosaic software. Titled Niépce, the work takes inspiration from the earliest-known photograph, View from the Window at Le Gras, by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, circa 1826. The image that opens the show is a “Googlegram” by the Catalan photographer Joan Fontcuberta who was born in 1955. “This exhibition asks us to consider the photograph as a globally transmitted, continually translated and annotated document - reinterpreted and re-animated through the lens of our shared histories, memories, and experiences,” said Princeton University Art Museum Director James Steward. On view are rare black and white photographs by masters as well as lesser known and emerging photographers: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paul Strand, Marc Ferrez, Manuel and Lola Alvarez Bravo, Joan Colom, Graciela Iturbide, Susan Meiselas, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, Joan Fontcuberta, and Rosângela Rennó. “The Itinerant Languages of Photography,” traces historical modes of photographic itinerancy from its origins in the 19th century as a shifting archival record to its conceptualist manifestations in the present. The meaning of the photographic images in relation to changing context is examined in a new exhibition that opened Saturday at the Princeton University Art Museum. An individual image can take on a life of its own as it travels beyond the traditional photo album to all corners and cultures of the world. With a camera in every cell phone and a cell phone in practically every pocket, photographs are no longer what they used to be. For more information, call (609) 258-3767, or visit: (Courtesy of the Artist)
A 2011 gelatin silver print, it is on view as part of the exhibition, “The Itinerant Languages of Photography,” currently on view at the Princeton University Art Museum. The photograph shown here was taken in the dry dusty desert of Cañon Zapata, Tijuana, in 1987. Besides reporting on Guatemala, Haiti, and Nicaragua, she has recorded the plight of Mexicans crossing the border into the United States. “EL MIGRANTE:” Elsa Medina is considered among the best of Mexico’s photojournalists.
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