Against Barthes Instant les aventures intimes des personnages

les aventures intimes des personnages y font écho à nos doutes

vers des objectifs dont nous finissons par reconnaître la substance logique

le fait divers a la prétention de dire quelque chose du réel

Julian Charrière

Il doit alors s’aventurer hors de son laboratoire et se confronter au vaste monde

Against Barthes Instant les aventures intimes des personnagesThe gesture of pointing is the perfect embodiment of photographys 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 photographys relation to indexicality. He refutes, as well as draws on, Roland Barthess suggestion that every photograph tells us this has been (a a t), reckoning with