Drew Nikonowicz: This World and Others Like It
“I was raised alongside the internet, so there was never an othering effect from the introduction to newer technologies, especially the internet.”
“I was raised alongside the internet, so there was never an othering effect from the introduction to newer technologies, especially the internet.”
“There nothing more boring than, lets say, a picture of a chair and everybody looking at it thinks, well, thats a chair.”
from Sputnik, 1997 @ Joan Fontcuberta By Charlie Tatum, for ASX, March 2014 Though Catalan photographer Joan Fontcuberta (b. 1955, Barcelona) is far from a household name, his receipt of the 2013 Hasselblad Award seems more than fitting. Following the success of Massimiliano Gioni’s Encylopedic Palace, Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos, and a resurgence of interest […]
Googlegram 5: Abu Ghraib, 2005 By Robert Goethals, Forward Thinking Museum In 1988, at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Joan Fontcuberta and Pere Formiguera mounted “Fauna,” an exhibition that included tenebrous photographs, scrupulously handwritten notes, X-rays, and the recorded shrieks of animals by a certain Dr. Peter Ameisenhaufen. The deceased German zoologist had allegedly […]
Entrevista com Joan Fontcuberta realizada no dia 23 de outubro de 2010. Catalão de Barcelona, é um caso raro na fotografia internacional. Fotógrafo criativo, é também um pensador sem limites, que vem se destacando desde os anos 1970, quando se formou na Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, onde foi professor na Facultad de Bellas Artes. Daí […]