Main entry:

Fontcuberta, Joan, 1955-

Title & Author:

The photography of nature / Joan Fontcuberta.

Publication:

London : Mack, ©2013.

Description:

53, 165 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 27 cm

Notes:
Published in association with the Hasselblad Foundation, to celebrate Fontcuberta's winning of the 2013 Hasselblad Award.
"This book presents some of Joan Fontcuberta's earliest and most iconic series such as Herbarium (1984) and Fauna (1987), together with Constellations (1993), Sputnik (1997), and the more recent Sirens (2000) and Orogenesis (2002)"--Page 48.
Essay by Geoffrey Batchen: Human nature: Joan Fontcuberta and the truthiness of the photograph. Essay by Jorge Wagensburg: Joan Fontcuberta: you can only have faith in doubt.
In tête-bêche format: introductory essay, details of Hasselblad Award, colophon at one end; Fontcuberta's earlier works at the other end.
Embossed green cover. Illustrated green endpapers.
For the second title, "Photography of nature", the cover, title page, and contents are bound upside down/back-to-back relative to the first title. Many illustrations in the second title are in color. Includes "essays" by Fontcuberta under pseudonyms Hortensio Verdeprado, Sir John Forrest, Juan García-Schroeder, and Pyotr Muraveinik.
Imprint from page 56.
"Hasselbald Award 2013"--Spine.
"Fontcuberta's photography is itself about photography's own workings, and with each series he challenges the audience's trust in the veracity of the medium and its function as a system of representation. Confronting our anxieties about that system, Fontcuberta's careful fabrications are laced with clues and inconsistencies - the photographer himself even appears, disguised as Hans von Kubert or Joan Fontana."--Publisher's web page.
("Nature of photography") Human nature : Joan Fontcuberta and the truthiness of the photograph / Geoffrey Batchen -- Joan Fontcuberta : you can only have faith in doubt / Jorge Wagensberg.
("Photography of nature") Herbarium ; Lessons in occult botany -- Fauna ; Secret fauna -- Sirens ; The mermaids of Digne : between biology and legends -- Orogenesis ; Alps without echos -- Constellations ; The star-catcher -- Sputnik ; The odyssey of Soyuz 2.

ISBN:

9781907946516
1907946519

Subject:

Fontcuberta, Joan, 1955-
Photography, Artistic.
Photographie artistique.
art photography.
Artists' books
Staged photography
Fantasy in mass media Pictorial works.
Animals, Mythical Pictorial works.
History Errors, inventions, etc. Pictorial works.
Photographs Psychological aspects
Hasselblad Award

Added entries:

Batchen, Geoffrey.
Wagensberg, Jorge.
Fontcuberta, Joan, 1955- Herbarium.
Fontcuberta, Joan, 1955- Fauna.
Fontcuberta, Joan, 1955- Constellations.
Fontcuberta, Joan, 1955- Sputnik.
Fontcuberta, Joan, 1955- Sirens.
Fontcuberta, Joan, 1955- Orogenesis.
Fontcuberta, Joan, 1955- photographer, author.
Batchen, Geoffrey author.
Wagensberg, Jorge author.
Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 285821
Call No.: BIB 225746
Status: Available