“Post-photography is not a style or a historical movement but a rerouting of visual culture…it defines a new relationship we’ve adopted with our images
“While Cartier-Bresson (in 1952) presented us with the idea of the ‘decisive moment,’ today it is about the non-decisive moment, the banal instance. Today we photograph everything and everywhere, even if it’s not a historical or solemn moment,” explains the renowned Catalan photographer Joan Fontcuberta, curator for this year’s edition of Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal.
There is a fascinating, if ultimately unequal, pair of exhibitions which just opened at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie: Camouflages, featuring the work of Joan Fontcuberta and Small Stories, with photographs by David Lynch. While nothing explicitly links them, implicitly each casts a illuminating light on the other.
Catalan photographer Joan Fontcuberta has won the 2013 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography. The award comes with a 110,000 Euro (approximately $143,000 US) prize, an exhibition at the Hasselblad Center at the Gothenburg Museum of Art
Hiroyuki Ito went off to Brazil with dreams of being the next great documentary photographer. He came home tired and sick. The call to join Magnum never came.
