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Photography Against the Grain

Author : Allan Sekula
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910164495
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (644 download)

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Download or read book Photography Against the Grain written by Allan Sekula and published by . This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long out of print, this seminal collection of essays and photographs are by artist, theorist and filmmaker, Allan Sekula. Originally published by the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1984, in these essays and images Sekula sought to portray the inextricable bond between labour and material culture, drawing deeply on Marxist theory to argue passionately for a collective model of progress. Sekula taught at California Institute of Arts (CalArts) from 1985 until his death in 2013, and from that insider's position he critiqued photography and the circumstances of its production and consumption, exposing what the medium failed to represent - women, labourers, minorities and the institutional structures that reinforce cultural biases. Allan Sekula (1951-2013) was an American artist, whose work spans multiple media: long form photographic series (Aerospace Folktales, 1973; School as a Factory,1980; War Without Bodies, 1991/96), critical texts (The Body and the Archive, 1986 and Debating Occupy, 2012) and film (The Forgotten Space, 2012).

Allan Sekula, Art Isn't Fair

Author : Mack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912339846
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Allan Sekula, Art Isn't Fair written by Mack and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

FISH STORY.

Author : ALLAN. SEKULA
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book FISH STORY. written by ALLAN. SEKULA and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Allan Sekula. Ship of Fools / The Dockers’ Museum

Author : Hilde Van Gelder
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9462700052
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Allan Sekula. Ship of Fools / The Dockers’ Museum written by Hilde Van Gelder and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sekula's final work dedicated to labor solidarity in and around the docks Ship of Fools / The Dockers’ Museum is the project on which the US artist and writer Allan Sekula worked during the last three years of his life (2010–2013). The work consists, first, of a corpus of thirty-three framed photographs and two slide projections of in total over one hundred images, all made by the artist (Ship of Fools); second, it contains a gigantic collection of various objects, graphic images, postcards, and prints which the artist purchased, mostly online (The Dockers’ Museum). Sekula dedicated this work to both historical and contemporary labor solidarity in and around the docks. At the time of his sad passing in the Summer of 2013, Allan Sekula was in the midst of collaborating on this publication with all four contributing authors: Gail Day, Steve Edwards, Alberto Toscano, and Hilde Van Gelder, each of whom he had asked to write essays. This volume, which includes a representative ensemble of images and objects that are part of Ship of Fools / The Dockers’ Museum, follows as closely as possible the instructions given by the artist and is the first substantial scholarly analysis of this impressive project. It contains a preface by Jürgen Bock and Bart De Baere, who both curated exhibited installations of the work during the artist's lifetime. The volume also includes draft text materials written by the artist himself, as well as selections from the multitude of unpublished interviews, public debates, and lectures that Allan Sekula delivered between 2010 and 2012. Finally, this publication includes a moving essay on the project by the artist's widow, Sally Stein.

Allan Sekula

Author : Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (Foundation)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783956793370
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Allan Sekula written by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (Foundation) and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication intersperses essays from scholars, historians, and thinkers with a selection of Allan Sekula's seminal texts and excerpts from his private notebooks. The title is a reference to Okeanos--son of Gaia, the Greek goddess of the earth--who ruled over the oceans and water. Made and written across the decades, Sekula's sketches and texts focus on maritime space and the material, economic, and ecological implications of globalization. In projects such as his magnum opus Fish Story (1989-95), or films like Lottery of the Sea (2006) and The Forgotten Space (2010), Sekula provided a view from and of the sea. This publication expands on these oceanic themes, seeking to honor the scope and complexity of the late artist-theorist's work, and situate his ideas in current political, social, and environmental discourses. The book is divided thematically: the section "Containerization" focuses on the sea as a site of infrastructural complication; Sekula's work Black Tide / Marea negra (2002-3) is also revisited, which explores environmental violence and contamination as well as their social implications; a selection from Sekula's personal drawings are accompanied by an essay by photo historian Sally Stein; various essays readdress Sekula's legacy in the age of the Anthropocene; and a number of case studies by contemporary artists, writers, and thinkers examine ideas that overlap with Sekula's and expand on his interests. Copublished with Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, and Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna Contributors Nabil Ahmed, Keller Easterling, Carles Guerra Rojas, Celina Jeffery, Laleh Khalili, Rosa Lleó, Gabriele Mackert, Jegan Vincent de Paul, Filipa Ramos, Cory Scozzari, Allan Sekula, Sally Stein, Philip Steinberg, Daniela Zyman

Five Days That Shook the World

Author : Alexander Cockburn
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859847794
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book Five Days That Shook the World written by Alexander Cockburn and published by Verso. This book was released on 2000-12-17 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is an account of the most intense popular uprising since the protests against the Vietnam War, exploring the convergence and victory of trade unionists, environmentalists, human rights advocates and farmers over the WTO in Seattle.

Dismal Science

Author : Allan Sekula
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Dismal Science written by Allan Sekula and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On the surface, our society looks much different than it did when Allan Sekula began writing criticism and making photographic works. In the late 1960s and early 1970s there was an identifiable counterculture, struggling, for example, to end the war in Vietnam. By contrast, today's social fabric seems both less tattered and more opaque. We can no longer identify a specific ""enemy"" as a tangible force that can be grasped or pictured, and perhaps it is even harder now to recognize our own complicity."

Facing the Music

Author : Edward Dimendberg
Publisher : East of Borneo Books
ISBN 13 : 9780692312445
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Facing the Music written by Edward Dimendberg and published by East of Borneo Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allan Sekula (1951-2013), photographer, artist, filmmaker, scholar, teacher and activist, devoted much of his life to the theory and practice of social documentary. This posthumous volume presents a collaborative exploration he initiated to examine downtown Los Angeles as its redevelopment peaked with the construction of Frank Gehry's cultural icon. Designed as an exploration of the impact of Gehry's building, the book challenges civic complacency by engaging a vital counter-tradition of social documentary investigation. Including a previously unpublished essay by Sekula on the challenges of representing the city, an interview with him about the 2005 exhibition Facing the Music which he curated for the gallery at REDCAT, and an overview of the building's history and the continuing urban transformations it has catalyzed, this publication is a unique record of social and artistic engagement in a metropolis often thought to inhibit such efforts.

Constantin Meunier

Author : Hilde van Gelder
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789058674883
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Constantin Meunier written by Hilde van Gelder and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constantin Meunier's monument to labour at the 1909 Meunier Exhibition in Leuven / Sura Levine. - Constantin Meunier and Leuven (1887-1897): a love-hate relationship / Marjan Sterckx. - Dilemma between engagement and creativity / Virgine Devillez. - 'Social realism' then and now: Constantin Meunier and Allan Sekula / Hilde van Gelder. - Globalisation and social rights/ Eva Brems. - Meunier and the new social question / Marc De Vos.

Critical Realism in Contemporary Art

Author : Jan Baetens
Publisher : Presses Universitaires de Louvain - UCL
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Critical Realism in Contemporary Art written by Jan Baetens and published by Presses Universitaires de Louvain - UCL. This book was released on 2006 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As scratches of reality, Sekula's photographs and films leave their traces in our minds. They encourage, yes, even force reflection, and through that, slow changes can probably become a reality, certainly at the level of the individual.

The Contest of Meaning

Author : Richard Bolton
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262521697
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book The Contest of Meaning written by Richard Bolton and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1992-02-25 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photography's great success gives the impression that the major questions that have haunted the medium are now resolved. On the contrary, the most important questions about photography are just beginning to be asked. These fourteen essays, with over 200 illustrations, critically examine prevailing beliefs about the medium and suggest new ways to explain the history of photography. They are organized around the questions: What are the social consequences of aesthetic practice? How does photography construct sexual difference? How is photography used to promote class and national interests? What are the politics of photographic truth? The Contest of Meaning summarizes the challenges to traditional photographic history that have developed in the last decade out of a consciously political critique of photographic production. Contributions by a wide range of important Americans critics reexamine the complex—and often contradictory—roles of photography within society. Douglas Crimp, Christopher Phillips, Benjamin Buchloh, and Abigail Solomon Godeau examine the gradually developed exclusivity of art photography and describe the politics of canon formation throughout modernism. Catherine Lord, Deborah Bright, Sally Stein, and Jan Zita Grover examine the ways in which the female is configured as a subject, and explain how sexual difference is constructed across various registers of photographic representation. Carol Squiers, Esther Parada, and Richard Bolton clarify the ways in which photography serves as a form of mass communication, demonstrating in particular how photographic production is affected by the interests of the powerful patrons of communications. The three concluding essays, by Rosalind Krauss, Martha Rosler, and Allan Sekula, critically examine the concept of photographic truth by exploring the intentions informing various uses of "objective" images within society.

The Uses of Photography

Author : Jill Dawsey
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520290593
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Uses of Photography written by Jill Dawsey and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-09-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Uses of Photography examines a network of artists who were active in Southern California between the late 1960s and early 1980s and whose experiments with photography opened the medium to a profusion of new strategies and subjects. These artists introduced urgent social issues and themes of everyday life into the seemingly neutral territory of conceptual art, through photographic works that took on hybrid forms, from books and postcards to video and text-and-image installations. Tracing a crucial history of photoconceptual practice, The Uses of Photography focuses on an artistic community that formed in and around the young University of California San Diego, founded in 1960, and its visual arts department, founded in 1967. Artists such as Eleanor Antin, Allan Kaprow, Fred Lonidier, Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula, and Carrie Mae Weems employed photography and its expanded forms as a means to dismantle modernist autonomy, to contest notions of photographic truth, and to engage in political critique. The work of these artists shaped emergent accounts of postmodernism in the visual arts and their influence is felt throughout the global contemporary art world today. Contributors include David Antin, Pamela M. Lee, Judith Rodenbeck, and Benjamin J. Young. Published in association with the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Exhibition dates: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego: September 24, 2016ÐJanuary 2, 2017

Fish Story

Author : Richard Hoyt
Publisher : Ulverscroft
ISBN 13 : 9781847823342
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (233 download)

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Download or read book Fish Story written by Richard Hoyt and published by Ulverscroft. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private investigator John Denson finds that helping his friend, salmon fisherman Willie Prettybird, gain treaty fishing rights for his tribe to be more dangerous than he thought.

The Order of Things

Author : George Thomas Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783869309941
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Order of Things written by George Thomas Baker and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the modern era, photography has been enlisted not only to document but also to classify the world and its people. Its status bolstered by a popular belief in the scientific objectivity of photographic evidence, photography has been used, from the earliest days of the medium, to produce and organize knowledge about the external world. Published to accompany the exhibition The Order of Things: Photography from The Walther Collection, this catalogue investigates the production and uses of serial portraiture, vernacular imagery, architectural surveys and time-based performance in photography from the 1880s to the present, bringing together works by artists from Europe, Africa, Asia and North America. Setting early modernist photographers Karl Blossfeldt and August Sander in dialogue with contemporary artists such as Ai Weiwei, Nobuyoshi Araki, Richard Avedon, Zanele Muholi, Stephen Shore and Zhuang Huan, The Order of Things illustrates how typological methods in photography have developed around the globe. Edited by Brian Wallis, The Order of Things includes texts by Geoffrey Batchen, Tina Campt, Christopher Phillips, George Baker, Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault, Michael Jennings, Ulrike Schneider, Allan Sekula and Joel Smith.

Documentary Now!

Author : Frits Gierstberg
Publisher : Nai010 Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Documentary Now! written by Frits Gierstberg and published by Nai010 Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documentary Now: Contemporary Strategies in Photography, Film and the Visual Arts~ISBN 90-5662-455-5 U.S. $35.00 / Hardcover, 5.5 x 5.5 in. / 192 pgs / 28 color and 18 b&w. ~Item / March / Nonfiction and Criticism

Jim Shaw

Author : Jim Shaw
Publisher : Jrp Ringier
ISBN 13 : 9783037641873
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (418 download)

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Download or read book Jim Shaw written by Jim Shaw and published by Jrp Ringier. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Mirage (1986 - 1991) is the first major body of work by Jim Shaw, an artist from Los Angeles who started exhibiting in the late 1970s.Composed of nearly 170 pieces - each one drawn, silk-screened, photographed, sculpted, filmed or painted in a different style - My Mirage recounts the wandering of Billy, a white, middle-class American sucked into the whirlwind of the 1960s and 1970s. His is a story of unceasing failure. After an anxious childhood, Billy later withdraws from the guilt-wracked spasms of adolescence in order to lose himself in a psychedelic utopia, which soon becomes a nightmare. In the depth of psychotic hallucinations, he follows a woman who he worships into a pagan sect, before finally returning to the religion of his youth, 'reborn' as a fundamentalist Christian.From the onset of the series, My Mirage has been constructed with the idea of the book as model. Not only does the overarching narrative take the form of a coming of age novel, but many of the individual pieces make direct reference to a book format. Created in close collaboration with Jim Shaw, the book thus presents itself as the culmination of the artist's original project. My Mirage - The Book will allow Jim Shaw's ever-growing audience to look at the whole of Billy's story for the first time. Furthermore, its format and content should appeal to a wide readership, beyond contemporary art, which includes anyone interested in the history of the counter-culture of the 1960s and 1970s, American graphic design and popular illustration.

Open City

Author : Kerry Brougher
Publisher : Hatje Cantz
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Open City written by Kerry Brougher and published by Hatje Cantz. This book was released on 2001 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by Russell Ferguson and Kerry Brougher.