Publisher Note
Museums and archives are institutions designed to preserve the memory of a community. Joan Fontcuberta rummages through their collections to find photographic documents that have deteriorated over time and, paradoxically, “lost their memory.” These fragile, ailing, amnesiac images are salvaged by a procedure that recalls the Zen technique of Kintsugi: a piece of broken pottery is not discarded, but repaired, a thread of gold marking the fracture line. Emphasizing scars is a form of resilience, of acceptance of the vicissitudes of life. In Kintsugi, Joan Fontcuberta assembles a poetic and conceptual gathering of phantasmal images that evoke the passage of time, the recording of history, and the very substance of photography
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| Release Place | Barcelona, Spain |
| Edition | 1st edition |
| Release Date | 2021 |
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978-84-17975-45-6
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| Topics | Archive, Memory, Museums |
| Language | English |
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| Format | Softcover |
| Binding | Japanese Binding, French Fold |
| Dimensions | 22.5 × 30.0 cm |
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| Pages | 92 |
