Fiction in Joan Fontcuberta: an analysis of the work Sputnik

• Autor(a) principal: Carvalho, Anna Letícia Pereira de
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Digital do LAV ( Laboratório de Artes Visuais)
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/revislav/article/view/21655
• topic: Joan Fontcuberta; Documental Photography; Fictional Photography; Sputnik; Joan Fontcuberta; Fotografia Documental; Fotografia Ficcional; Sputnik

In this article we analyze the work of art Sputnik from the Spanish Photographer and thinker Joan Fontcuberta, aiming at understanding which kind of provocation the artist does, in relation of the fictionalization of documental images. We chose some photographs from the project Sputnik to compose the article corpus and, thus, develop the analysis of this work. The theoretical framework is composed by Philippe Dubois, Boris Kossoy, Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin and Joan Fontcuberta himself. Through this brief analysis we were able to conclude that Fontcuberta makes use of aesthetics characteristics from documental photography to tease the spectator, who is unprepared to question the “truth” in the photographic images.