Truths and Fictions

Truths and Fictions. A Journey from Digital to Documentary Photography. (Casa de las imágenes, 1995) Introduction by Joan Fontcuberta. “Photographs are not responsible for corroborating our truth or establishing our power of reasoning, but exclusively for questioning the hypothesis on which others may base their truth.” This is how Joan Fontcuberta describes this book, where Pedro Meyer brings together the characteristics of opposite yet close poles: the United States and Mexico, which, in turn, are accompanied by complementary visions, analog and digital photography. Visions that, through this fusion within the image, invite the viewer to reflect on the nature of the photographic medium and its mutation from a photochemical origin to digital and on the distinction between the truth of documentary photography and fiction.