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Joan Fontcuberta, recipient of Spain’s National Photography Award (1998) and National Essay Award (2011), brings together his dual expertise to further explore the fractures of contemporary visual culture.

Through both artistic practice and critical reflection, this collection of essays delves into the latent aspects of the image—the traces and imprints through which photography leaves its mark on human experience, whether emotional, social, or political. What remains of photography in the 21st century as a fragment and vestige, as an act of curiosity and archiving? How does it persist in an era of post-truth and selfies, of social media’s indiscreet windows and generative artificial intelligence?

Imágenes latentes. La fotografía en transición offers essential insights into an oversaturated visual world, where the question is no longer just how to reveal the photographic, but how photography reveals us.


Joan Fontcuberta is an artist, essayist, teacher and exhibition curator. His creative work explores the conflicts between nature, technology, photography and truth, and has been the subject of many solo exhibitions and monographic publications over the past five decades. Many of his projects are presented as fictional narratives that parody authoritarian mechanisms for the spreading of information and the transfer of knowledge (politics, religion, the media, science, cultural industries, etc.), usually aimed at fuelling doubt and triggering a critical attitude in the audience. His theoretical writings include El beso de Judas. Fotografía y verdad (Gustavo Gili, 1997), La cámara de Pandora (Gustavo Gili, 2010) [Pandora’s Camera: Photography after Photography; Mack, 2014], La furia de las imágenes: notas sobre la postfotografía (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2016) and Desbordar el espejo (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2024).

In 2013, Joan Fontcuberta received the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography, and in 2020, he was granted the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Sorbonne University of Paris 8.

ISBN 978-84-09-69077-0
First edition: Dalpine, 2025
Translated from Catalan by Gemma Deza Guil
Cover design and layout: Nerea García Pascual
Format: 139x216 mm
Binding: Softcover with flaps
Number of pages: 281
Language: Spanish