Allan Sekula
 Allan Sekula, Self-Portrait (Lendo, 12/22/02), 2002-03, cibachrome, 15 by 21 inches. | |
| Born |
January 15, 1951 Erie, Pennsylvania |
|---|---|
| Died |
August 10, 2013 (aged 62) Los Angeles, US |
Allan Sekula was a photographer, film maker, theoretician and art critique.
He was born 1951 in the USA, lived, worked in Los Angeles and teached at the California Institute for the Arts. His work has been discussed in the context of contemporary art dealing with socio-economic and cultural changes within globalized economy and policy.
Sekula’s work is held in numerous collections including the Thyssen-Bornesmisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, the Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, MACBA, Barcelona, the Museum Folkwang, Essen, and the ARCO Foundation, Madrid.
The College Art Association granted him its Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art, in acknowledgement of his publication of books including Photography against the Grain: Essays and Photo Works 1973-83 (1984) and Performance under Working Conditions (2003).
He died in 2013, following a long struggle with cancer.
Literature
- Books
- Photography against the Grain: Essays and Photo Works 1973–1983, 1984.
- with R. Bolton, The contest of meaning: critical histories of photography, 1989.
- Fish Story, 1995, 2002.
- Dead Letter Office, 1997.
- Dismal Science: Photoworks 1972-1996, 1999.
- Seemannsgarn, 2002.
- Titanic's Wake, 2003.
- Performance under Working Conditions, 2003.
- A Dialogue with Allan Sekula, 2005.
- Polonia and Other Fables, 2009.
- Ecrits sur la photographie: 1974-1986, trans. Marie Muracciole, Paris: Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, 2013. (French)
- Selected articles, papers
- "On the Invention of Photographic Meaning", Artforum, 13:5, January 1975: 36-45.
- "Dismantling Modernism, Reinventing Documentary (Notes on the Politics of Representation)", The Massachusetts Review, 19:4, December 1978: 859-83.
- "The Traffic in Photographs", Art Journal, Vol. 41, No. 1, Photography and the Scholar/Critic (Spring, 1981): 15-25.
- "Body and the Archive", October, no. 39, Winter 1986: 3 – 64.
- "Michael Asher - Down to Earth", Afterall, no. 1 (London), 1999:30-35 [1].
- "Between the Net and the Deep Blue Sea (Rethinking the Traffic in Photographs)", October, Vol. 102, (Autumn, 2002): 3-34.
- "Reading An Archive:Photography between labour and capitalism", The Phtographer reader (ed. Liz Wells), Routledge, New York, 2003, Chap. 42: 443-452.
- "La política de la fotografía", chap. in Jorge Ribalta (ed.),Efecto real :debates posmodernos sobre fotografía', trans. Elena Llorens Pujol, Barcelona: Editorial Gustavo Gili, S.L., 2004:35-64 (in Spanish).
- "Debating Occupy" an article for Art in America, June/July 2012:103.
- On Sekula
- Zanny Begg, "Recasting Subjectivity. Globalisation and the Photography of Andreas Gursky and Allan Sekula", Third Text, Vol. 19, Issue 6, November, 2005:625–636.
- Hilde Van Gelder, "A Matter of Cleaning up: Treating History in the Work of Allan Sekula and Jeff Wall", History of Photography, Volume 31, Number 1, Spring 2007: 68-80.
- Caroline Sara Owen, Allan Sekula, Margarita Cabrera and Vik Muniz: Representations of the Social Conditions and Capital Relations of Labor, Thesis, UC Riverside, 2011.
- Bill Roberts, "Production in View: Allan Sekula's Fish Story and the Thawing of Postmodernism", immediations, 2, no. 4, December 2011:10-32 [2].
- Bill Roberts, "Production in View: Allan Sekula’s Fish Story and the Thawing of Postmodernism" (revised republication), Tate Papers, issue 18, Autumn 2012 [3].
- Gail Day, "Event. Allan Sekula 1951–2013" in Journal of Visual Culture 12(3): The Archives Issue, 2013: 515-518.
- More
Films
- A Short Film for Laos, 2006 [4]
- The Forgotten Space, 2010
External links
- Sekula at Wikipedia
- Sekula on The forgotten space
- Sekula on the Le beau vice blog (in French)
- Interview with Allan Sekula, Bomb92 magazine/Summer 2005.
- Interview with Allan Sekula about the relationship between art and photography, 14 min, 2011.
- Exhibition Ship of Fools, 2012
- Sekula presented by Phil Steinberg
