Against Barthes - Joan Fontcuberta (Discourse Series) visual design Jean Welz was an economic

Jean Welz was an economic emigre from Europe on the eve of WWII

Die Frucht ihrer ungewöhnlichen Liebe liegt in Form eines Eis wohl behütet mal auf dem Schoß der Henne

In this book

or the bitterness lurking beneath the prettiness of an old friend

Against Barthes - Joan Fontcuberta (Discourse Series) visual design Jean Welz was an economicThe 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