Started in January 1990, Formiguera selected 32 individuals ranging in age from 2 to 75 years old
Yet, the creature is named Cronos. The father of the gods. The devourer. Perhaps Formiguera is suggesting that photography itself is a kind of Cronos—a medium that consumes reality and regurgitates a simulacrum. Every photograph devours its subject, converting three-dimensional, temporal life into a flat, eternal corpse. Cronos the creature is already dead; Cronos the photograph keeps him undead. pere formiguera cronos high quality
The conceit was flawless. Cronos was presented as the centerpiece of Ameisenhaufen’s "discovery": the skeletal remains of a mythical creature—a chimera—found near the Florida-Georgia border. The project, titled Fauna , included photographs of the excavation, X-rays, anatomical drawings, and, most famously, the "portrait" of the creature's only known specimen: Cronos. Started in January 1990, Formiguera selected 32 individuals