Thanks to the cameraphone,we are drowning in images. Which are distinguished, and what gives them meaning? In Montreal, and a group of artists attempt to decideThe Catalan curator and artist Joan Fontcuberta remembers a Spanish company asking him in the early days of cellphones if he thought incorporating a camera into a phone was a superb idea. “I said that’s bullshit. Nobody will use it. Photography is a serious thing,if you want to lift a photograph you lift your camera,” he says. How mistaken I was.”The world changed and Fontcuberta was wise enough to change with it. The proliferation of the cameraphone means we all constantly fabricate (to make up, invent) and consume photographs, and a state that has led him to describe humans as Homo photographicus. Named the guest curator for the 14th biannual Le Mois de la Photo à Montreal,Fontcuberta chose the “post-photographic condition” as this edition’s theme. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com