Hemograms, 1998
The images in this series have not been created with a camera. Instead, they made from drops of blood deposited onto transparent glass slides which, when placed in the amplifier, creates a negative. The images are projected onto photographic paper, and are thus printed and inverted, in order to be later converted into a positive.
The blood samples come from both friends and strangers, such that, in a way, each one of these photographs could be a portrait. In some sense, they allow casualtity to come into play, they can associate each image with some attribute of the person to who they pertain. In this moment of his career Fontcuberta was interested more in essence than forms: "I marvel at, above all, the form without form, at the multiple readings that can be applied to these works." Joan Fontcuberta
