How to face a piece of news or an image? How to find the correct source? Fontcuberta focuses on the great danger of credulity and on the importance of authenticity. Doubt and reflection on this theme make us aware and strong in the face of manipulation.
The entire photographic production of Max Pinckers develops around a double ambiguity: the ambiguity of the real – multifaceted, manipulated, interpreted, invoked – and the ambiguity of the oldest of the media invested with the responsibility of documenting it, photography.
Photojournalism is a window open on the world, whose first duty is to inform about events, captured through a lucid eye, inspired by criteria of credibility, reliability, truthfulness. It is less free than higher forms of photography, but that is its nature. Or at least, it should be.
The project “Scatta la notizia” has had as its protagonists the students of two high schools in the Neapolitan territory, assisted by two exceptional teachers. For two years Photolux, with the support of Canon Italia and the collaboration of Neapolis.Art, has brought two great photographers, both winners of the World Press Photo, to accompany the kids in the world of visual communication.
“Un’autentica bugia” [An authentic lie] one of the most interesting and complete essays of recent years on the ambiguous dialectic between the nature of the index/document of the photograph opposed to its ability to lie.
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