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Joan Fontcuberta
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Fauna
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Joan Fontcuberta
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Joan Fontcuberta
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Joan Fontcuberta : la imagen como señuelo
The aim of Spanish photographer Joan Fontcuberta (born 1955) has always been to destabilize the veracity attributed to photography, whether through image or story manipulation. This third edition of a PHotoBolsillo classic offers a tour across the oeuvre of a true innovator in contemporary photography.
Pandora's Camera
The first English translation of a renowned collection of essays by Joan Fontcuberta, in which he considers the technological shift that photography has undergone in recent years. Fontcuberta uses the motif of Pandora's box to conceptualise the capricious nature of photography, and its fickle relationship to truth - employing the Greek myth concerning a large jar containing myriad forms of human unhappiness, or blessings, depending on the version you read. As Pandora's camera, digital technology spells calamity to some and liberation to others; it is blamed for irretrievably discrediting veracity, but at the same time it introduces a new degree of truth. Fontcuberta examines the new principles that have arisen within the digital ecosystem, in critical reflections inspired by the hope that still remains in the notion of a postmodern Pandora's camera - one that might not only describe our environment, but also bring transparency to it.
Photography
Featuring such established and emerging photographers as Joan Fontcuberta, Hubertus von Ameluxen, Daniel Girardin, Andr Gunthert, Ian Jeffrey, Mounira Khemir, Boris Kossoy, Andrea Kunnard, Vincent Lavoie, Joan Warnaco, Jos Antonio Navarrete, Bernardo Riego, Teresa Siza, Marie Loup Sougez, Johan Swinnen, Carmelo Vega, and Henning Steen Wettendorff, Photography: Crisis in History showcases work that challenges the way in which we have normally understood the medium of photography. At a time when the photographic image is omnipresent--in our daily environment as it is in art--the historical and aesthetic models used to interpret photography are in a state of crisis. Here an international group ...
Joan Fontcuberta
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Joan Fontcuberta
This book explores the critically acclaimed work of the Spanish Hasselblad Award-winning photographer Joan Fontcuberta. Joan Fontcuberta is one of the most inventive contemporary photographers, with a career spanning more than three decades, during which time he has constantly investigated, experimented with, and questioned the photographic medium. His work is distinguished by original and playful conceptual approaches that particularly explore photographic conventions, means of representation and claims to truth. He challenges concepts of science and fiction in interdisciplinary projects that extend far beyond the gallery space. This fully revised and updated volume presents a superbly illustrated overview of the work of the 2013 Hassleblad Award-winning photographer. Language - English and Spanish
