datascapes Orogenesis / Googlegrams by Joan Fontcuberta - $20 in Belleville, Ontario for sale

datascapes Orogenesis / Googlegrams by Joan Fontcuberta
Author: Joan Fontcuberta
Hardcover: 95 pages
Publisher: VEGAP; 2007
Language: English & French
ISBN-13: 44 / 4
Condition: Very good - contents are clean and unmarked
Price: $20.00

Orogenesis
In this project, also known as Landscapes without Memory, Fontcuberta created plausible, even spectacular landscapes using Terragen, a computer program originally created for military and scientific uses that turns maps into images of three-dimensional terrain.However, instead of starting with scans of maps, Fontcuberta used scans of historical artworks such as a Henri Rousseau painting or Gustave Le Gray photograph, as well as parts of the human body to produce astonishing landscapes.

Googlegrams
The basic idea of Googlegrams consists in selecting images that have become icons of our time. The images are refashioned using a freeware photo mosaic programme - the programme was connected to the Internet and used the search engine Google to locate thousands of images on the basis of search criteria determined by the user, normally images associated with one or several words.

Joan Fontcuberta (born February 24, 1955 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) is a conceptual artist whose best-known works, such as Fauna and Sputnik, examine the truthfulness of photography.