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.
Joan FontcubertaPhotography... has lived under the tyranny of its subject matter: the object has exercised an almost total domination.
Joan FontcubertaPhotography 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.
Joan FontcubertaI have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises.
Joan Fontcuberta