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Joan Fontcuberta Quotes: Photography is a tool to negotiate our idea of reality. Thus it is the responsibility of photographers to not contribute with anaesthetic images but rather to provide images that shake consciousness.
         

Photography is a tool to negotiate our idea of reality. Thus it is the responsibility of photographers to not contribute with anaesthetic images but rather to provide images that shake consciousness.


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I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises.



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Photography... has lived under the tyranny of its subject matter: the object has exercised an almost total domination.



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The heart [of my work], the quintessential, remains the questioning of photographic truth. Be careful, be critical, doubt, and filter the information you receive.



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This page presents the quote "Photography is a tool to negotiate our idea of reality. Thus it is the responsibility of photographers to not contribute with anaesthetic images but rather to provide images that shake consciousness.". Author of this quote is Joan Fontcuberta. This quote is about consciousness, responsibility, reality, photography,.