Against Barthes - Joan Fontcuberta (Discourse Series) urban art competition entries

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Taking its initial inspiration from this pivotal event

Engaging in pedagogical expressions of rage

They exemplify how the foundation of Bea’s world is formed by her innate fascination for things with a past life

consists almost entirely of anonymous black & white snapshots of people in various postures of reading — morein living rooms

Against Barthes - Joan Fontcuberta (Discourse Series) urban art competition entriesThe gesture of pointing is the perfect embodiment of photographys function as a visual document: an injunction to look at this. In this textual and visual essay, artist Joan Fontcuberta takes the index finger as his point of departure for an insightful and irreverent consideration of photographys relation to indexicality. He refutes, as well as draws on, Roland Barthess suggestion that every photograph tells us this has been (a a t), reckoning with