Against Barthes - Joan Fontcuberta (Discourse Series) visual design Miro Roman

Miro Roman

Barbara Lehmann

or the bitterness lurking beneath the prettiness of an old friend

language would thrust its way into her sleep like a skewer through meat

Against Barthes - Joan Fontcuberta (Discourse Series) visual design Miro RomanThe gesture of pointing is the perfect embodiment of photographys function as a visual document: an injunction to look at this. In this textual and visual essay, artist Joan Fontcuberta takes the index finger as his point of departure for an insightful and irreverent consideration of photographys relation to indexicality. He refutes, as well as draws on, Roland Barthess suggestion that every photograph tells us this has been (a a t), reckoning with