The heart [of my work], the quintessential, remains the questioning of photographic truth. Be careful, be critical, doubt, and filter the information you receive.
Every photograph is a fiction with pretensions to truth. Despite everything that we have been inculcated, all that we believe, photography always lie… - Joan Fontcuberta
Every photograph is a fiction with pretensions to truth. Despite everything that we have been inculcated, all that we believe, photography always lie…
- Joan Fontcuberta
The heart [of my work], the quintessential, remains the questioning of photographic truth. Be careful, be critical, doubt, and filter the information… - Joan Fontcuberta
The heart [of my work], the quintessential, remains the questioning of photographic truth. Be careful, be critical, doubt, and filter the information…
The world begins with every kiss. - Joan Fontcuberta
The world begins with every kiss.
Photography mirrored the [nineteenth century] will towards rigor, towards defining details, the need for miniscule description, the long-distance opt… - Joan Fontcuberta
Photography mirrored the [nineteenth century] will towards rigor, towards defining details, the need for miniscule description, the long-distance opt…
I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises. - Joan Fontcuberta
I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises.
Photography... has lived under the tyranny of its subject matter: the object has exercised an almost total domination. - Joan Fontcuberta
Photography... has lived under the tyranny of its subject matter: the object has exercised an almost total domination.
There are religions in which the representation of the world is banned as an usurpation of the power of a God, creator of all things. It is very poss… - Joan Fontcuberta
There are religions in which the representation of the world is banned as an usurpation of the power of a God, creator of all things. It is very poss…
Photography is a tool to negotiate our idea of reality. Thus it is the responsibility of photographers to not contribute with anaesthetic images but … - Joan Fontcuberta
Photography is a tool to negotiate our idea of reality. Thus it is the responsibility of photographers to not contribute with anaesthetic images but …
I need there to be documentary photographers, because my work is meta-documentary; it is a commentary about the documentary use of photography. - Joan Fontcuberta
I need there to be documentary photographers, because my work is meta-documentary; it is a commentary about the documentary use of photography.
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