Joan Fontcuberta, Imago ergo sum

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-84-16248-35-3
Verlag: La Fábrica Editorial

Buch, Spanisch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, PB, Format (B × H): 235 mm x 281 mm, Gewicht: 1026 g

Through which devices are ideas communicated? Where do images reside? A selection of eight of Joan Fontcuberta’s most significant projects confronts us with these questions. Herbarium, Fauna,Sputnik, Securitas, Pin Zhuang, Miracles, Deconstructing Osama and Trepat stake out between 1984 and 2014 an artistic inquiry rightly known as the problematization of the “regimes of truth” in photography. But on this occasion the criterion of selection put forward by curator Sema D’Acosta adds an original perspective: the contrast in Fontcuberta’s work between the distribution in space (exhibitions, installations) and the layout on the page (photo books, signature books). In other words, we are here being presented with a pedagogical balancing of equations, the variables of which are the contents, the media used and the audiences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fontcuberta Villà, Joan

Weitere Mitwirkende

Fontcuberta, Joan

Über Autor(innen)

Fontcuberta, Joan
Joan Fontcuberta (Barcelona, 1955) is an artist, curator, essayist, and lecturer. He is
considered one of Europe’s most important contemporary photographers and one of
the most respected and highly regarded voices in the international scene. He has been recognized with the David Octavius Hill medal, awarded by Germany’s Fotografisches
Akademie GDL (1988), was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture (1994), and has been the recipient of Spain’s National Photography Prize (1998) and National Essay Prize (2011), as well as the Hasselblad
Award (2013), one of the most prestigious prizes worldwide in the field of photography.