Joan Fontcuberta & Pilar Rosado: Prosopagnosia
Fontcuberta, Joan / Rosado, Pilar
Joan Fontcuberta and Pilar Rosado transform historic photographs into new portraits through digital algorithm softwareHere, Catalan conceptual artists Joan Fontcuberta (born 1955) and Pilar Rosado create photorealistic portraits of nonexistent people. Using a digital algorithm to generate new faces from real photographs from the 1930s, Fontcuberta and Rosado develop a contemporary version of cubist and surrealist portraiture.