| Description |
133 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 x 29 cm |
| Contents |
Pedro Meyer: Truths, Fictions, and Reasonable Doubts / Joan Fontcuberta -- Truths & Fictions: United States -- Truths & Fictions: Mexico -- With Commentary on the Digital Revolution from Contributors Around the World (Excerpted from Letters to Pedro Meyer) -- Expanding Memory: Interview With Pedro Meyer / Michael Sand -- Digital Studio |
| Summary |
A magical and illuminating photographic exploration of Mexico and the United States, Truths & Fictions is the most comprehensive body of work to date using digital-imaging technology. Mexican photographer Pedro Meyer employs the new medium in these images to convey powerful insights into human nature and the nature of perception. Meyer's blend of documentary photography and computer-imaging makes for an idiosyncratic journey across the Americas that is in turns hilarious and disturbing. Strolling saints, angels and devils, peasants, presidents, and beauty queens all pass before Meyer's camera - and then through his computer - resulting in images that appear convincingly real yet strangely impossible, subverting the myth of photographic truth |
| Analysis |
Documentary photography |
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Meyer, Pedro |
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Photography |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: page 127 |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Meyer, Pedro, 1935-
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Documentary photography -- Mexico -- Oaxaca (State)
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Documentary photography -- Mexico -- Oaxaca
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Documentary photography -- United States.
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Photography -- Digital techniques.
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Photography, Artistic.
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| SUBJECT |
Mexico -- Pictorial works. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100313
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United States -- Pictorial works. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140007
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| Author |
Fontcuberta, Joan, 1955-
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| LC no. |
94079645 |
| ISBN |
0893816086 |
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