I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises. — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
Every photograph is a fiction with pretensions to truth. Despite everything that we have been inculcated, all that we believe, photography always lies; it lies instinctively, lies because its nature does not allow it to do anything else. — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
Photography... has lived under the tyranny of its subject matter: the object has exercised an almost total domination. — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises. — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
I need there to be documentary photographers, because my work is meta-documentary; it is a commentary about the documentary use of photography. — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
Every photograph is a fiction with pretensions to truth. Despite everything that we have been inculcated, all that we believe, photography always lies; it… — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
The heart [of my work], the quintessential, remains the questioning of photographic truth. Be careful, be critical, doubt, and filter the information you receive. — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
Photography mirrored the [nineteenth century] will towards rigor, towards defining details, the need for miniscule description, the long-distance optics, for technology at the service… — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
Photography is a tool to negotiate our idea of reality. Thus it is the responsibility of photographers to not contribute with anaesthetic images but… — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
Among photojournalists there is still a sense that doing a photomontage is far graver than adding a filter. I am against this type of… — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
There are religions in which the representation of the world is banned as an usurpation of the power of a God, creator of all… — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
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