Against Barthes Instant où le banal et le

où le banal et le mystérieux se rencontrent

Hotel Soleil - Illustration imprimée dans le cadre d’une campagne de soutien organisée avec Raphaelle Macaron après l’explosion de Beyrouth en Août 2020

an ethnographic endeavour of sorts: an attentive act of consensual observation and documentation of 38 women and the bodies and beds they inhabited in a certain room at a certain moment in time

Baker Brown a pu préconiser l’éradication de l’onanisme féminin par l’ablation du clitoris (la dernière a été pratiquée en 1948

Whether using make-up

Against Barthes Instant où le banal et leThe 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