Landscapes without memory
Joan Fontcuberta
Aperture
English
Essay by Geoffrey Batchen
Hardcover
First Edition
96 pages
215 x 318 mm
2005
ISBN 1931788790
Joan Fontcuberta tries to put the “real” into Dalí’s Surrealism. In this first major monograph to be published in the United States by one of Spain’s most prominent and innovative artists, Fontcuberta subjects various imaginative landscapes–among them ones by Cézanne, Turner and Weston in addition to Dalí, as well as photographs of his own body–to the manipulation of landscape-rendering software originally designed for the military and scientific communities. The limited visual vocabulary of the programs translates contours (like floppy clocks) into natural elements such as hills, rivers, clouds and the like. The result, actually, looks far from real. As Fontcuberta says, “In a typically surrealistic caper, introducing the critical-paranoid method in the technological heart of the computer, Dalí’s dreams become equally impossible landscapes.” And, he might have added, gorgeous black-and-white ones.
(source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1033245.Joan_Fontcuberta)
About the Artist
Joan Fontcuberta (born 24 February 1955) is a Spanish conceptual artist and photographer 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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About the Publisher
Aperture is a nonprofit publisher that leads conversations around photography worldwide. From our base in New York, Aperture connects global audiences and supports artists through our acclaimed quarterly magazine, books, exhibitions, digital platforms, public programs, limited-edition prints, and awards. Established in 1952 to advance “creative thinking, significantly expressed in words and photographs,” Aperture champions photography’s vital role in nurturing curiosity and encouraging a more just, tolerant society.
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