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Joan Fontcuberta (born 24 February 1955 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) is a conceptual artist whose best-known works, such as Fauna and Sputnik, examine the truthfulness of photography. In addition, he is a writer, editor, teacher, and curator.

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Photography is a tool to negotiate our idea of reality. Thus it is the responsibility of photographers to not contribute with anaesthetic images but rather to provide images that shake consciousness.

Images, Negotiate, Photography, Reality, Responsibility

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

Art, Artistic, Doe, Photographer, Thought

The world begins with every kiss.

Begins, Kiss, Kissing, World

Among photojournalists there is still a sense that doing a photomontage is far graver than adding a filter. I am against this type of hierarchy that demonizes some options over others, demonizes them in respect to, what - ideology or moral code?

Among, Filters, Hierarchy, Moral, Photojournalists, Respect

The heart [of my work], the quintessential, remains the questioning of photographic truth. Be careful, be critical, doubt, and filter the information you receive.

Careful, Doubt, Filters, Heart, Receive

There are religions in which the representation of the world is banned as an usurpation of the power of a God, creator of all things. It is very possible that photography is a trick of the devil and each shot is a sin.

Creator, Devil, God, Photography, Power, World

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.

Believe, Instinctively, Lying, Photograph, Photography

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

Lived, Matter, Object, Photography, Tyranny

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 of truth, for concepts of credibility, of objectivity, the need to archive, for the consolidation of institutions like the museum, in short, towards a need to control memory.

Concepts, Distance, Institutions, Memories, Photography, Service

I need there to be documentary photographers, because my work is meta-documentary; it is a commentary about the documentary use of photography.

Commentary, Documentary, Needs, Photographers, Photography, Use

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