Joan Fontcuberta

La cámara de Pandora. La fotografí@ después de la fotografía.

En el mundo contemporáneo las apariencias han sustituido a la realidad. No obstante la fotografía, una tecnología históricamente al servicio de la verdad, sigue ejerciendo una función de mecanismo ortopédico de la conciencia moderna: la cámara no miente, toda la fotografía es una evidencia. A partir de vivencias personales, Joan Fontcuberta critica esta creencia y reflexiona sobre aspectos fundamentales de la creación y la cultura actuales. Desde su primera edición en 1997, El beso de Judas se ha convertido en un libro clásico e imprescindible sobre la reflexión en torno a la fotografía.

fotografía y verdad

El beso de Judas

Christian Caujolle

This volume - investigating the work of a particular photographer, in this case, Joan Fontcuberta - comprises a 4000-word essay by an expert in the field, 55 photographs presented chronologically, each with a commentary, and a biography of the featured photographer.

dos assaigs sobre fotografia

Revelacions

notas sobre la postfotografía

La furia de las imágenes

Aunque la creencia general es que la literatura teórica sobre la fotografía no ha existido, una reflexión más profunda, como indica Joan Fontcuberta, revela que fueron los convencionalismos culturales y los factores ideológicos los que provocaron que esa literatura cayera en el olvido. La irrupción del conceptualismo propiciará la reflexión teórica acerca del arte y, con ello, los ensayos teóricos de fotógrafos o allegados al medio adquieren de nuevo toda su relevancia. Estética fotográfica reúne una veintena de ensayos significativos que explican los fundamentos teóricos de las diferentes tendencias de la fotografía. Entre sus autores se cuentan precursores del medio como Fox Talbot o Henry Peach Robinson, artistas como Moholy-Nagy y fotógrafos contemporáneos influyentes como Edward Weston o Minor White. Aunque esta antología estética aspira a ser una herramienta útil para estudiantes y fotógrafos, también constituye una buena introducción a la polémica teórica de un medio que ha influido de manera clave en las artes visuales y en la cultura contemporánea.

una selección de textos

Estética fotográfica

Joan Fontcuberta, fotografo e studioso, attento osservatore della realtà contemporanea, scrive un saggio lucido e irriverente sui nuovi significati dell'immagine e sui modi con i quali essa ci riguarda e colpisce.

La furia delle immagini

Gabriela Nouzeilles

Thomas Keenan

Valeria González

Eduardo Cadava

John Mraz

Mauricio Lissovsky

"This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition The Itinerant Languages of Photography, Princeton University Art Museum, September 7, 2013-January 19, 2014"--Title page verso.

The Itinerant Languages of 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 of historians and critics--as well as the artists mentioned above--revise the dominant assumptions on which our knowledge and appreciation of the history of photography have been based, and set out a number of possible alternatives. Featuring a selection of the best in contemporary international photography, as well as sixteen revealing and concise essays exploring the state of the historical question in photography, Photography: Crisis in History is an exhilarating artistic and art-historical document.

Crisis of History

Photography

Formiguera, Pere

Fauna

Do androids dream of cameras?

dos ensayos sobre fotografía

Revelaciones

64P. is a photo-essay collection whose aim is to recover and raise the value of brevity. It is a collection that chooses intensity over duration. 64P. takes up a creative space akin to short stories in literature or short films in cinema. There are other ways to tell. Some things must necessarily be brief. This is why the most outstanding photographers have been invited to create under this premise. Joan Fontcuberta's work conveys a critic to conceiving photography as evidence of reality. He aims to question the veracity attributed to photographs, by means of image and story manipulation as well as intense interaction with viewers. Fontcuberta has carried out a diverse activity within the world of photography, as a creator, teacher, critic, curator and historian. His work has been recognised with important awards such as the Spanish National Photography Award. In 2013 he became the first Spanish photographer to win the prestigious Hasselblad Award.

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.

Photogr@phy After Photography

Pandora's Camera

During the last six years, the photographer Joan Fontcuberta (Barcelona, 1955) has visited libraries and archives throughout Europe and North America and gathered together images of censured text from different epochs and authors -Desiderius Erasmus, Fernando de Rojas, Francisco de Quevedo, among others. Based on this series of images, Joan Fontcuberta presents 'Deletrix', an artistic project (an exhibition and an artist book) on censorship with the direct involvement of PEN Catalan. 'Deletrix' includes a series of images by the photographer together with texts in which writers of international renown reflect on censorship. This project, driven by PEN Catalan aspires to become a literary and artistic benchmark volume on censorship. Contributions by: Contributions by Carme Arenas, Manuel Guerrero Brullet, Chenjerai Hove, Herta Muller (Nobel Prize for Literature, 2009), Emmanuel Pierrat, John Ralston Saul and Salman Rushdie. AUTHOR: Joan Fontcuberta was awarded the Hasselblad Prize (2013), considered as the Nobel in photography, in recognition of his entire career. His work has previously been discerned by other awards, such as the National Photography Award (1998) and the National Essay Award (2011). Illustrated

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