Itinerant Languages of Photography

While photographs have been exchanged, appropriated and mobilized in different contexts since the 19th century, their movement is now occurring at an unprecedented speed. "The Itinerant Languages of Photography" examines photography's capacity to circulate across time and space as well as across other media, such as art, literature and cinema. Taking its point of departure from Latin American and Spanish photographic archives, the volume offers an alternative history of photography by focusing on the transnational dimension of technological traffic and image production at a time when photography is at the centre of current debates on the role of representation, authorship and reception in a global contemporary culture. Featuring a wide-range of photographs – images that converse across temporal, political and cultural boundaries by artists such as Lola and Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Marcelo Brodsky, Joan Colom, Marc Ferrez and Joan Fontcuberta – the book argues that the photographic image comes into being only as a consequence of reproduction, displacement and itinerancy.