This book explores the critically acclaimed work of the Spanish Hasselblad Award-winning photographer Joan Fontcuberta. Joan Fontcuberta is one of the most inventive contemporary photographers, with a career spanning more than three decades, during which time he has constantly investigated, experime[...]
Over the course of six decades, Jose Ortiz Echague captured the people and landscapes of a changing Spain on the way to modernisation in his photographs with great sensitivity and a hint of nostalgia for a world he sensed would soon disappear. These pages also reflect his experiencies in the lands o[...]
Between 1903 and 1964, when he laid down his camera for good, Ortiz Echague (1886-1980) documented a vanishing, pre-industrial, rural Spain with heroic diligence, traveling thousands of miles to photograph communities and ways of life on the verge of extinction. This volume compiles some of his best[...]
This volume brings together three projects by Joan Fontcuberta, projects that partake of a critical practice of photography within the context of contemporary art. In "Constellations", "Haemograms" and "Semiopolis" paradox, ambiguity, trompe-l'oeil and the investigation of the photographic trace for[...]
While photographs have been exchanged, appropriated, and mobilized in different contexts since the 19th century, their movement is now occurring at an unprecedented speed. The Itinerant Languages of Photography examines photography's capacity to circulate across time and space as well as across othe[...]