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Joan Fontcuberta was born in Barcelona in 1955. Together with his artistic research, during the years, he carried on a multidisciplinary activity in the field of photography, as professor, critic, historician and exhibition curator. He was a visiting professor in numerous international institutions, such as Harvard University and Le Fresnoy. Centre National des Arts Contemporains. He also taught in the Communication Department of the Pompeo Fabra University, in Barcelona.
In 1980 he founded the magazine Photovision and he was its editor-in-chief for twenty years. He published numerous books related to history, aesthetics and pedagogy of photography: Estetica Fotografica: una seleccion de textos (1984), Fotografia: conceptos y procedimientos (1990), El beso de Judas. Fotografia y verdad (1994), Ciencia y friccion. Fotografia, naturaleza, artificio (1998), Historias de la Fotografia Espanola. Escritos 1977-2004 (2009), Indiferencias fotograficas (2011). In 2012 he published with Contrasto La (foto)camera di Pandora. La fotografi@ dopo la fotografia, whose Spanish edition published the previous year won the 2011 National Essay Award, issued by the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
He presented his artistic research, focused on the ideas of nature, technology, photography and truth, in many solo exhibition in important international institutions, including MOMA (New York), Musee Cantini (Marseille), Art Institute (Chicago), IVAM (Valencia), Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Rome), ARTIUM (Vitoria) and Palais de Beaux Arts (Lille).