Against Barthes Instant Whether using make-up

Whether using make-up

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

où le banal et le mystérieux se rencontrent

le fait divers a la prétention de dire quelque chose du réel

Against Barthes Instant Whether using make-upThe 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