Joan Fontcuberta

Quick Facts

Full Name	Joan Fontcuberta
Occupation	Photographer
Date Of Birth	Feb 24, 1955(1955-02-24)
Age	69
Birthplace	Barcelona
Country	Spain
Birth City	Catalonia
Horoscope	Aquarius

Joan Fontcuberta Biography

Joan Fontcuberta is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on February 24, 1955 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Also referred to also as “Dr. Ameisenhaufen’s Fauna” or “Secret Fauna”, Fontcuberta developed this series in collaboration with photographer and writer Pere Formiguera. The concept of the series was Fontcuberta and Formiguera found the archives that were long lost of German Zoologist the late Dr. Peter Ameisenhaufen, who was born in 1895, and who mysteriously disappeared in 1955. Ameisenhaufen had catalogued a range of animals that were unusual; for instance, Cercopithecus icarocornu resembles a monkey that has a unicorn-like horn on its head and wings and Solenoglypha the polipodida looks like the snake that has 12 feet.

In 1980, he co-founded the bilingual journal of visual arts in English and Spanish, PhotoVision He continues to be the Editor-in-Chief. Since 1993, Fontcuberta is a professor of audiovisual communications for Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. In addition to teaching assignments and appointments, he was a an invited lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University in 2003. In addition to other honors being awarded, he was made an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture in 1994. His curatorial work includes his time as Artistic Director for in 1996 Rencontres d’Arles, an international photography festival. He exhibited at Les Rencontres d’Arles, France, in 2005 and 2009.

Fontcuberta reported that responses to the exhibition ranged “from people who understand that it is a farce and appreciate the satire and the humor of it, to people who understand it’s a farce and are angry at you for trying to fool them, to people who believe it and are angry, to people who believe it and are delighted.” He said in another interview that during the 1989 exhibition in the Barcelona Museum of Natural Science, “30% of the visitors aged 20 to 30, with university training, believed that some of our animals could have existed.”

Several lines of evidence available since the first exhibition of “Sputnik” in 1997 in Madrid suggested that the story and artifacts form an elaborate hoax:

Fontcuberta is a native of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He graduated with a diploma in communication from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1977. He was employed in advertising during his first years of career as well as his family also worked in the field of advertising. From 1979 until 1986, the professor was in the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona, after which he was able to earn an income from his work.

Joan Fontcuberta Net Worth

Joan Fontcuberta is one of the richest Photographer from Spain. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Joan Fontcuberta 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Joan Fontcuberta (born 24 February 1955) is an artist of the conceptual genre whose most well-known work, like Fauna and Sputnik explore the authenticity of photography. In addition, he’s an editor, writer as well as a teacher and curator.

In this particular project, Fontcuberta constructed evidence that shows that the Soyuz 2 spacecraft was crewed by Cosmonaut Ivan Istochnikov. Soyuz 1, an actual Soviet space mission that took place in 1967, ended with the death of the cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov when the spacecraft came down on the its landing. In 1968, as per the fake story “Istochnikov and his canine companion Kloka mysteriously vanished after leaving the Soyuz 2 capsule for a routine space walk. When the Soyuz 3 arrived for a docking maneuver, it found only a vodka bottle containing a note, floating in orbit outside the empty, meteorite-damaged ship.” The actual Soyuz 3 spacecraft did rendezvous with Soyuz 2, but Soyuz 2 was an uncrewed spacecraft that was launched to be a rendezvous point to Soyuz 3. According to Fontcuberta Soviet officials erased Istochnikov off of the his official Soviet historical records to prevent embarrassment. However”Sputnik Foundation, “Sputnik Foundation” discovered Istochnikov’s “voice transcriptions, videos, original annotations, some of his personal effects, and photographs taken throughout his lifetime.” The exhibit of objects (e.g. photographs, etc.)) associated with “Soyuz 2” was shown in a number of countries that included Spain, France, Portugal, Italy, Mexico, Japan as well as Mexico, Japan and United States. As a result of the exhibit one of them was that one Russian Ambassador “got extremely angry because [Fontcuberta] was insulting the glorious Russian past and threatened to present a diplomatic complaint.”

A review of the exhibition as presented in 1988 at the Museum of Modern Art noted that the evidence presented for the existence of the animals included “photographs… both in their natural habitats and in laboratory situations; detailed field notes, both in the original German and English translations; an occasional skeletal X-ray or dissection drawing; two or three tapes of the animals’ cries, and in one case, an actual stuffed specimen.” Furthermore, a video displayed interviews in which various people discussed Ameisenhaufen’s life.

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Nevertheless, “many unsuspecting folks have been taken in by the story”, including the Spanish journalist Iker Jiménez. On 11 June 2006 television show Cuarto Milenio (Fourth Millennium), Jiménez said (in Spanish) about Istochnikov “the question is why [he was deleted from history], what he had done, why he annoyed [the Soviet government].” In response, “one of Jiménez’s collaborators, Gerardo Pelaez, said the Soviet authorities made Istochnikov disappear because he was the personification of ‘a noisy failure’.” Fontcuberta was quoted as saying about Jiménez’s mistake “It’s all very funny!” The next week, Jiménez issued a correction, saying that the story was a “cosmic urban legend.”

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Joan Ranked on the list of most popular Photographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Spain. Joan Fontcuberta celebrates birthday on February 24 of every year.

Japanese singer Akino Arai wrote a song Sputnik (published in the Album Furu Platinum) about Istochnikov and his dog Kloka. The song begins with the fragment from the Russian poem written by Evtushenko, which was also used in the Sputnik exhibition Catalogue. The poem in this song is a back translation and does not fit to the Russian original in the book. Also, the 2013 sci-fi feature film The Cosmonaut is heavily inspired by Fontcuberta’s hoax.