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 FontcubertaPhotography... has lived under the tyranny of its subject matter: the object has exercised an almost total domination.
Joan FontcubertaI need there to be documentary photographers, because my work is meta-documentary; it is a commentary about the documentary use of photography.
Joan FontcubertaPhotography 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.
Joan Fontcuberta