The photography of nature & The nature of photography
By: Joan Fontcuberta
Contributors: Batchen, Geoffrey; Wagensberg, Jorge; Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation
Publisher: MACK
Published: 2013
Place of publication: United Kingdom
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9781907946516
Subjects: Exhibitions; Artists' books; Nature photography; Documentary photography
Other titles: Nature of photography
Notes: Two books in one--cover, title page, and contents of the second title are bound upside down relative to the first title

Joan Fontcuberta is the 33rd recipient of the prestigious Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography.

Fontcuberta's photography is itself about photographys 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.