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PRE-ORDER: Joan Fontcuberta – Against Barthes: The Eye and the Index

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The gesture of pointing is the perfect embodiment of photography’s 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 photography’s relation to indexicality. He refutes, as well as draws on, Roland Barthes’s suggestion that every photograph tells us ‘this has been’ (‘ ça a été ’), reckoning with the inconvenient multiplicity of thises in any given image. If a photograph constitutes such a statement – as made explicit in images

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