Herbarium joan fontcuberta biography

For Joan Fontcuberta Barcelona, , photographing nature is a way to reflect on the nature of photography. His renowned project Herbarium did exactly that: illustrating a time of growing environmental awareness, biotech or genetic control over living forms.

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Fontcuberta's eye was already well trained on conceptual art, counterculture mainly Dadaism and Surrealism and Postmodernism. Herbarium revamped botanic illustrations in a post-industrial world, while paying an ironic homage to German photographer Karl Blossfeldt After four decades taking Herbarium to art galleries worldwide, nature and photography have changed quite a bit.

The result was e-Herbarium , as thought-provoking and valid as it was back in the Eighties, hosted by the Kominek Gallery in Berlin. Herbarium Pirulera salbi. Herbarium Licovornus punxis. Herbarium Himenea integrada. Herbarium Cala. Herbarium Bifilia. Herbarium Flor miguera.