Regards sur la ligne. La frontière Mexique-États-Unis à travers l’objectif d’Elsa Medina et de Francisco Mata Rosas.

Based on the work of two Mexican photographers who started out as photojournalists in the nineteen-eighties, notably at La Jornada, this article questions the look directed at a border that has undergone great changes over the last 40 years. Elsa Medina was La Jornada’s correspondent in Tijuana towa...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:bc06a72243a146e0b97b799b96be51132021-12-02T10:12:42ZRegards sur la ligne. La frontière Mexique-États-Unis à travers l’objectif d’Elsa Medina et de Francisco Mata Rosas.1950-570110.4000/ideas.11942https://doaj.org/article/bc06a72243a146e0b97b799b96be51132021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/ideas/11942https://doaj.org/toc/1950-5701Based on the work of two Mexican photographers who started out as photojournalists in the nineteen-eighties, notably at La Jornada, this article questions the look directed at a border that has undergone great changes over the last 40 years. Elsa Medina was La Jornada’s correspondent in Tijuana towards the end of the 1990s. She photographed the Mexican North-West border for some twenty years, during her frequent trips to this border town. She pictures a line that has become vertical with time, through various US administrations that have built miles and miles of wall along the border. A few years ago, Francisco Mata Rosas undertook a long-term project entitled “La línea”, centered on the physical and human geography of this space, from West to East. He extended this project by taking photographs using cameras mounted on drones, highlighting the immensity of the physical scar that separated both countries today.Marion GautreauInstitut des AmériquesarticleWallUS-Mexico BorderElsa MedinaFrancisco Mata RosasLatin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799Social sciences (General)H1-99ENFRIdeAs : Idées d’Amériques, Vol 18 (2021)
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topic Wall
US-Mexico Border
Elsa Medina
Francisco Mata Rosas
Latin America. Spanish America
F1201-3799
Social sciences (General)
H1-99
spellingShingle Wall
US-Mexico Border
Elsa Medina
Francisco Mata Rosas
Latin America. Spanish America
F1201-3799
Social sciences (General)
H1-99
Marion Gautreau
Regards sur la ligne. La frontière Mexique-États-Unis à travers l’objectif d’Elsa Medina et de Francisco Mata Rosas.
description Based on the work of two Mexican photographers who started out as photojournalists in the nineteen-eighties, notably at La Jornada, this article questions the look directed at a border that has undergone great changes over the last 40 years. Elsa Medina was La Jornada’s correspondent in Tijuana towards the end of the 1990s. She photographed the Mexican North-West border for some twenty years, during her frequent trips to this border town. She pictures a line that has become vertical with time, through various US administrations that have built miles and miles of wall along the border. A few years ago, Francisco Mata Rosas undertook a long-term project entitled “La línea”, centered on the physical and human geography of this space, from West to East. He extended this project by taking photographs using cameras mounted on drones, highlighting the immensity of the physical scar that separated both countries today.
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author Marion Gautreau
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title Regards sur la ligne. La frontière Mexique-États-Unis à travers l’objectif d’Elsa Medina et de Francisco Mata Rosas.
title_short Regards sur la ligne. La frontière Mexique-États-Unis à travers l’objectif d’Elsa Medina et de Francisco Mata Rosas.
title_full Regards sur la ligne. La frontière Mexique-États-Unis à travers l’objectif d’Elsa Medina et de Francisco Mata Rosas.
title_fullStr Regards sur la ligne. La frontière Mexique-États-Unis à travers l’objectif d’Elsa Medina et de Francisco Mata Rosas.
title_full_unstemmed Regards sur la ligne. La frontière Mexique-États-Unis à travers l’objectif d’Elsa Medina et de Francisco Mata Rosas.
title_sort regards sur la ligne. la frontière mexique-états-unis à travers l’objectif d’elsa medina et de francisco mata rosas.
publisher Institut des Amériques
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