Photography Quotes by Joan Fontcuberta

Photography... has lived under the tyranny of its subject matter: the object has exercised an almost total domination.

— Joan Fontcuberta

I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises.

— Joan Fontcuberta

The world begins with every kiss.

— Joan Fontcuberta

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

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

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

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

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

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

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