Description
In Camouflages, Joan Fontcuberta impressively brings into question the ideas of reality, photography, authorship, and truth, exploring camouflage in all its aspects. Through paradoxical and amazing pictures, he reflects upon the idea of realism as a belief, faith, or conviction, showing that nothing is what it seems.
Joan Fontcuberta was born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1955. Together with his artistic research, during the years he carried on multidisciplinary activity in the field of photography as a professor, critic, historian, and exhibition curator. In 1980 he founded the magazine Photovision and was its editor-in-chief for twenty years. He has published numerous books related to the history, aesthetics, and pedagogy of photography.
About the Author
Joan Fontcuberta was born in Barcelona in 1955. Together with his artistic research, during the years, he carried on a multidisciplinary activity in the field of photography, as professor, critic, historician and exhibition curator. He was a visiting professor in numerous international institutions, such as Harvard University and Le Fresnoy. Centre National des Arts Contemporains. He also taught in the Communication Department of the Pompeo Fabra University, in Barcelona.In 1980 he founded the magazine Photovision and he was its editor-in-chief for twenty years. He published numerous books related to history, aesthetics and pedagogy of photography: Estética Fotográfica: una selección de textos (1984), Fotografía: conceptos y procedimientos (1990), El beso de Judas. Fotografía y verdad (1994), Ciencia y fricción. Fotografía, naturaleza, artificio (1998), Historias de la Fotografía Española. Escritos 1977-2004 (2009), Indiferencias fotografícas (2011). In 2012 he published with Contrasto La (foto)camera di Pandora. La fotografi@ dopo la fotografia, whose Spanish edition published the previous year won the 2011 National Essay Award, issued by the Spanish Ministry of Culture.He presented his artistic research, focused on the ideas of nature, technology, photography and truth, in many solo exhibition in important international institutions, including MOMA (New York), Musée Cantini (Marseille), Art Institute (Chicago), IVAM (Valencia), Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Rome), ARTIUM (Vitoria) and Palais de Beaux Arts (Lille).
