List of photobooks by photographer Fontcuberta, Joan

Joan Fontcuberta is a contemporary Spanish photographer of Catalan origin. A lover of fake and staged photographs, who uses humor to denounce the manipulation hidden under the images.

" Images are our memory, our imagination, our unconscious "

In his pictures, Joan Fontcuberta stages images that mimic scientific approaches, journalistic reports, religious narratives, museum speeches ... except that everything is fake.

His works are exhibited at the MoMA in New York, at the Georges Pompidou National Center for Art and Culture in Paris. His award-winning work can boast of the Hasselblad Prize for Photography (2013), among others.


Photo: © self-portrait

Joan Fontcuberta is a contemporary Spanish photographer of Catalan origin. A lover of fake and staged photographs, who uses humor to denounce the manipulation hidden under the images.


" Images are our memory, our imagination, our unconscious "


In his pictures, Joan Fontcuberta stages images that mimic scientific approaches, journalistic reports, religious narratives, museum speeches ... except that everything is fake.

His works are exhibited at the MoMA in New York, at the Georges Pompidou National Center for Art and Culture in Paris. His award-winning work can boast of the Hasselblad Prize for Photography (2013), among others.



Photo: © self-portrait



Bibliography: Already published photo books / monographs


2021 Contravisiones, Ediciones Anómalas
2016 TRAUMA Die Traumadeutung, Fundación Cristina Masaveu Peterson
2014 Trepat, Editions Bessard
        Camouflages, GG / Contrasto
2013 The Photography of Nature & The Nature of Photography, Mack
2003 L'artista e la fotografia
2002 Karelia : Milagros & Co
2001 Securitas
2000 Twilight Zones
1999 Micromegas
1997 Sputnik
1995 Wundergarten der Natur
1994 La fragua de Vulcano
1992 Història artificial
1989 Fauna
1984 Herbarium

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  • Presentation by Ediciones Anómalas: " Over the course of 2020 we have had occasion to take a deep look at Joan Fontcuberta's archive, more precisely, at the early years of his career as a photographer. Our search was, of course, partly influenced by the concept of countervision, which we find fascinating and has proved critical to Fontcuberta's career....

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  • Presentation by Joan Fontcuberta, guest editor of this MOULD #2 issue : "Images are so powerful that they can even provoke casus belli, as recent events like Muhammad’s caricatures and the Charlie Hebdo tragedy witness. The history of thought is also the history of images. That is why philosophers deal with the urging need to decode what an image is....

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  • .Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "En 1914 le magnat industriel Josep Trepat Galceran crée une industrie pour la production de machines agricoles qui deviendra un des moteurs économiques de l’Espagne au cours du XXème siècle. Homme cultivé et attentif aux dynamiques de l’art de son temps, M. Trepat va passer des commandes à quelques uns des grands...

  • .Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "En 1914 le magnat industriel Josep Trepat Galceran crée une industrie pour la production de machines agricoles qui deviendra un des moteurs économiques de l’Espagne au cours du XXème siècle. Homme cultivé et attentif aux dynamiques de l’art de son temps, M. Trepat va passer des commandes à quelques uns des grands...

  • The supernatural, unlikely, imaginary animals of Joan Fonctuberta : Animal trouvé, N° 15 in the Zine Collection by Editions Bessard. This zine comes with a signed C-Print.40 pages - Softcover Editions Bessard, 2014 (300 copies) Format : 15 x 21 cm*w/ signed print* New - Mint condition

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  • .Sold out.Catalogue from the "Hasselblad Award 2013" that displays images from several of the most famous series of this artist, including Fauna (1987) and Sputnik (1997).224 pages - Hardcover, no DJ Mack, 2013 New - Mint condition

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