1. Joan Fontcuberta was born on 24 February 1955 and is a Spanish conceptual artist and photographer whose best-known works, such as Fauna and Sputnik, examine the truthfulness of photography.
12 Facts About Joan Fontcuberta
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Joan Fontcuberta received a degree in communications from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1977.
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Joan Fontcuberta worked in advertising in his early career, and his family had worked in advertising.
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Since 1993 Fontcuberta has been a professor of audiovisual communication at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.
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Joan Fontcuberta exhibited at Les Rencontres d'Arles, France, in 2005 and 2009.
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Joan Fontcuberta says that the missing finger makes him a terrible photographer, although in 2013 he won the Hasselblad International Award in Photography.
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Joan Fontcuberta's background in communications and advertising led him to contemplate the relationship between photography and truth, and Fontcuberta believes that humor is an important component of his work.
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Solo exhibitions of single series of Joan Fontcuberta's works include the following :.
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Also known as "Dr Ameisenhaufen's Fauna" or "Secret Fauna", Joan Fontcuberta created this series in collaboration with the writer and photographer Pere Formiguera.
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The premise was that Joan Fontcuberta and Formiguera discovered the long-lost archives of German zoologist Dr Peter Ameisenhaufen, who was born in 1895 and who disappeared mysteriously in 1955.
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Joan Fontcuberta created a story about how the "Hydropithecus" fossils were discovered by a "Father Jean Fontana" whose face resembles Joan Fontcuberta's.
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For example, in the photograph "The Miracle of the Flesh," Joan Fontcuberta is shown holding a slice of ham with an image of Che Guevara on it, and the caption states that Adolf Hitler or Osama bin Laden can be seen on other ham slices depending on the food eaten by the pig.