Author: Joan Fontcuberta
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910164037
Category : Digital photography
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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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.
Author: Geoffrey Batchen
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ISBN: 9781931788793
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Joan Fontcuberta tries to put the "real" into Dalí's Surrealism. In this first major monograph to be published in the United States by one of Spain's most prominent and innovative artists, Fontcuberta subjects various imaginative landscapes--among them ones by Cézanne, Turner and Weston in addition to Dalí, as well as photographs of his own body--to the manipulation of landscape-rendering software originally designed for the military and scientific communities. The limited visual vocabulary of the programs translates contours (like floppy clocks) into natural elements such as hills, rivers, clouds and the like. The result, actually, looks far from real. As Fontcuberta says, "In a typically surrealistic caper, introducing the critical-paranoid method in the technological heart of the computer, Dalí's dreams become equally impossible landscapes." And, he might have added, gorgeous black-and-white ones.
Author: Joan Fontcuberta
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Explores the photography of Picasso, Miró, Dalí and Tàpies as revealed in the series The Artist and the Photograph originally exhibited in Barcelona, Spain.
Author: Joan Fontcuberta
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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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.
Author: Joan Fontcuberta
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Author: Eduardo Cadava
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300174366
Category : Art and photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"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.
Author: Joan Fontcuberta
Publisher: La Fabrica
ISBN: 9788416248988
Category : Conceptual art
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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The aim of Spanish photographer Joan Fontcuberta (born 1955) has always been to destabilize the veracity attributed to photography, whether through image or story manipulation. This third edition of a PHotoBolsillo classic offers a tour across the oeuvre of a true innovator in contemporary photography.
Author: Joan Fontcuberta
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ISBN: 9788417975036
Category : Computer art
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Prosopagnosia' (memory pathology to remember faces) is a project departing from a historial photo archive from a Spanish local newspaper active in the 30's, devoted to public personalities of the time. This collection of faces is the input for a G.A.N. (Generative Adversatorial Network) algorithm which develops a machine learning process to generate new faces out of the archive portraits (although it could apply it to any kind of archive). The result is a new collection of photorealistic images of non existing persons. The final pictures are convincingly photographic but the focus is mainly set on the wonderful sequence of failed attempts that review important steps in art history: Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, Picasso, Bacon, Abstraction and so on.
Author: Tomás Dvo?ák
Publisher: Technicities
ISBN: 9781474478816
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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These essays address the epistemological, aesthetic and political implications of scale in both scholarly and artistic work. From the mass image in vernacular culture to transformations of photography in contexts of big data and artificial intelligence, they explore the massification of photography.
Author: Nathalie Dietschy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781789142082
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"In the first book devoted to representations of Jesus Christ in contemporary photography, Nathalie Dietschy presents a rich range of images from the 1980s to the present day. Acclaimed photographers such as Catherine Opie, Wang Qingsong, Joan Fontcuberta, Greg Semu, Andres Serrano, David LaChapelle, Renee Cox and Bettina Rheims offer fresh - and often provocative - depictions of Christ that address issues from race to sexuality to gender. The Figure of Christ in Contemporary Photography guides the reader through these alternative representations, analysing the complex social, political and cultural issues that the photographs bring to light."--Provided by publisher.
