Word: fontcuberta
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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Visiting Lecturer Joan Fontcuberta has asked his students to stage the perfect murder...
...sinister as it may sound, this is just another weekly assignment in Fontcuberta’s Photofictions seminar in the department of Visual and Environmental Sciences. With the aid of elaborate costumes and lifelike props, Fontcuberta and his photography students stage a murder scene so convincing that photos of it could qualify as forensic documentation. People like to believe that the camera can’t lie. Photofictions—and Joan Fontcuberta’s art in general—are testimony to the contrary...
...visiting artist this year, Fontcuberta has brought his unique artistic eye to the Harvard campus—one that seeks to question the very nature of artistic truth. In his native Spain, Fontcuberta has pioneered a form of prank art that forges traditional artistic scenes and representations and passes them off as real, thus raising the question of what is, in fact, authentic...