Publisher/Mack

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"The Photography of Nature & The Nature of Photography (Signed)" is a collection of works by Spanish Catalan photographer João Fontuberta (1955-). Active as a photographer, critic, and educator, Fontuberta has consistently questioned the relationship between photography, reality, fiction, and scientific authority by subverting the trust placed in the medium that "photography tells the truth," presenting elaborate fictions as factual. Published by MACK to commemorate his 2013 Hasselblad International Photography Award win, this book includes six representative series: "Herbarium," "Fauna," "Constellations," "Sputnik," "Sirens," and "Orogenesis." He constructs fictional plants and animals, astronauts, mermaid fossils, and computer-generated landscapes as "facts," borrowing the forms of specimens, records, and academic materials. A distinctive feature is its book design, which allows the critical text to be read from a different direction when the book is flipped over. As its inverted titles, "Photography of Nature" and "The Essence of Photography," suggest, this is a core volume that provides an overview of Fonquberta's philosophy and major works. Signed by the photographer .