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==Publications==
 
==Publications==
[[Image:Cover_Photography_Against_the_Grain.jpg|thumb|258px|''Photography Against the Grain: Essays and Photo Works 1973-1983'', Halifax, 1984.]]
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[[Image:Cover_Photography_Against_the_Grain.jpg|thumb|350px|''Photography Against the Grain: Essays and Photo Works 1973-1983'', Halifax, 1984.]]
[[Image:Sekula_Allan_Fish_Story.jpg|thumb|258px|''Fish Story'', 1995/2002, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=7630 Log], [[Media:Sekula_Allan_Fish_Story.pdf|PDF]].]]
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[[Image:Sekula_Allan_Fish_Story.jpg|thumb|350px|''Fish Story'', 1995/2002, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=7630 Log], [[Media:Sekula_Allan_Fish_Story.pdf|PDF]].]]
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===Books and catalogues===
* ''Photography Against the Grain: Essays and Photo Works, 1973-1983'', Halifax: Press of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1984, 259 pp.; reprint, London: MACK, 2017, 260 pp. [https://shop.perimeterbooks.com/collections/all-titles/products/allan-sekula-photography-against-the-grain-essays-and-photo-works-1973-1983]
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* ''Photography Against the Grain: Essays and Photo Works, 1973-1983'', Halifax: Press of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1984, 259 pp; repr., London: MACK, 2017, 260 pp. [https://shop.perimeterbooks.com/collections/all-titles/products/allan-sekula-photography-against-the-grain-essays-and-photo-works-1973-1983]
  
 
* ''Fish Story'', Düsseldorf: Richter, [http://aaaaarg.fail/thing/522529a2307888737800000a 1995], 204 pp; [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=7630 2nd ed., rev.], 2002, 206 pp, [[Media:Sekula_Allan_Fish_Story.pdf|PDF]], [http://aaaaarg.fail/static/reader.htm?0=6cadaac62e509971114f7256715a2927-0 ARG].
 
* ''Fish Story'', Düsseldorf: Richter, [http://aaaaarg.fail/thing/522529a2307888737800000a 1995], 204 pp; [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=7630 2nd ed., rev.], 2002, 206 pp, [[Media:Sekula_Allan_Fish_Story.pdf|PDF]], [http://aaaaarg.fail/static/reader.htm?0=6cadaac62e509971114f7256715a2927-0 ARG].
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* ''Geography Lesson: Canadian Notes'', MIT Press, 1997.  
 
* ''Geography Lesson: Canadian Notes'', MIT Press, 1997.  
  
* ''Dismal Science: Photoworks 1972-1996'', Illinois: Illinois State University, 1999, 272 pp. [http://www.halfletterpress.com/allan-sekula-dismal-science-photo-works-1972-1996/]
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* ''Dismal Science: Photoworks 1972-1996'', ed. Debra Risberg, Illinois State University, 1999, 272 pp. [http://www.halfletterpress.com/allan-sekula-dismal-science-photo-works-1972-1996/]
  
 
* ''Titanic's Wake'', Cherbourg-Octeville: Point du jour, 2003, 119 pp. {{en}}/{{fr}}
 
* ''Titanic's Wake'', Cherbourg-Octeville: Point du jour, 2003, 119 pp. {{en}}/{{fr}}
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* ''Polonia and Other Fables / Polonia i inne opowieści'', ed. Karolina Lewandowska, Chicago: The Renaissance society at The University of Chicago, and Warsaw: Zache̜ta National Gallery of Art, 2009, 117 pp. {{en}}/{{pl}}
 
* ''Polonia and Other Fables / Polonia i inne opowieści'', ed. Karolina Lewandowska, Chicago: The Renaissance society at The University of Chicago, and Warsaw: Zache̜ta National Gallery of Art, 2009, 117 pp. {{en}}/{{pl}}
  
* ''Ecrits sur la photographie: 1974-1986'', trans. Marie Muracciole, Paris: Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, 2013. {{fr}}
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* with Wombell Paul, Sontag Susan, Berger John, Burgin Victor, Barthes Roland and others, ''Anni 70. Fotografia e vita quotidiana'',  Silvana, 2009. Catalogue {{it}}
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[[Image:Sekula_Allan_Ecrits_sur_la_photographie_1974_1986_2013.jpg|thumb|350px|''Ecrits sur la photographie: 1974-1986'', 2013]]
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* ''Ecrits sur la photographie: 1974-1986'', trans. and intro Marie Muracciole, Paris: Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, 2013. {{fr}}
  
 
* ''Ship of Fools / The Dockers' Museum'', ed. and intro Hilde Van Gelder, Leuven University Press, 2015, 240 pp. [http://upers.kuleuven.be/en/book/9789462700055]
 
* ''Ship of Fools / The Dockers' Museum'', ed. and intro Hilde Van Gelder, Leuven University Press, 2015, 240 pp. [http://upers.kuleuven.be/en/book/9789462700055]
  
 
* ''Facing the Music: Documenting Walt Disney Hall and the Redevelopment of Downtown Los Angeles'', ed. Edward Dimendberg, East of Borneo Books, 2015,  240 p.
 
* ''Facing the Music: Documenting Walt Disney Hall and the Redevelopment of Downtown Los Angeles'', ed. Edward Dimendberg, East of Borneo Books, 2015,  240 p.
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* with Giorgio Agamben, Ariella Azoulay, Roland Barthes, Georges Didi-Huberman, Harun Farocki and others, ''Walead Beshty: Picture Industry Paperback'', JRP Ringier, 2017, 608 pp.
  
 
* ''[[Media:Sekula_Allan_School_is_a_Factory_1978-80.pdf|School is a Factory (1978-80)]]'', n.d.
 
* ''[[Media:Sekula_Allan_School_is_a_Factory_1978-80.pdf|School is a Factory (1978-80)]]'', n.d.
  
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===Selected articles===
* "On the Invention of Photographic Meaning", ''Artforum'' 13:5 (Jan 1975), pp 36-45; [[Media:Sekula_Allan_On_the_invention_of_Photographic_Meaning_1975.pdf|repr. in]] ''Photography in Print'', ed. Vicki Goldberg, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1981, pp 452-473; [http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic867995.files/Alan%20Sekula%20Invention.pdf repr. in] ''Thinking Photography'' ed. Victor Burgin, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1982, pp 84-109; [http://offtheorange.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/sekula-photo-meaning.pdf repr. in] Sekula, ''Photography Against the Grain'', 1984, pp 3-21.
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* "On the Invention of Photographic Meaning", ''Artforum'' 13:5, Jan 1975, pp 36-45; [[Media:Sekula_Allan_On_the_invention_of_Photographic_Meaning_1975.pdf|repr. in]] ''Photography in Print'', ed. Vicki Goldberg, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1981, pp 452-473; [http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic867995.files/Alan%20Sekula%20Invention.pdf repr. in] ''Thinking Photography'' ed. Victor Burgin, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1982, pp 84-109; [http://offtheorange.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/sekula-photo-meaning.pdf repr. in] Sekula, ''Photography Against the Grain'', 1984, pp 3-21.
* "The Instrumental Image: Steichen at War", ''Artforum 14'', no. 4, (Dec 1975), pp 26-35.
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* "Dismantling Modernism, Reinventing Documentary (Notes on the Politics of Representation)", ''The Massachusetts Review'' 19:4 (Dec 1978), pp 859-883; [[Media:Sekula_Allan_Dismantling_Modernism_Reinventing_Documentary_1978.pdf|repr. in]] ''Photography, Current Perspectives'', ed. Jerome Liebling, Light Impressions, 1978, pp 231-255; [http://blogs.macba.cat/pei/files/2011/01/PATG_DismantlingModenism.pdf repr. in] Sekula, ''Photography Against the Grain'', 1984, pp 53-75.
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* "The Instrumental Image: Steichen at War", ''Artforum'' 14:4, Dec 1975, pp 26-35.
* [[Media:Sekula_Allan_1981_The_Traffic_in_Photographs.pdf|"The Traffic in Photographs"]], ''Art Journal'' 41:1 (Spring 1981), pp 15-25.
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* "Reading An Archive: Photography Between Labour and Capitalism", 1983; [[Media:Sekula_Allan_1983_2003_Reading_an_Archive.pdf|repr. in]] ''The Photography Reader'', ed. Liz Wells, New York: Routledge, 2003, pp 443-452.
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* "Dismantling Modernism, Reinventing Documentary (Notes on the Politics of Representation)", ''The Massachusetts Review'' 19:4, Dec 1978, pp 859-883; [[Media:Sekula_Allan_Dismantling_Modernism_Reinventing_Documentary_1978.pdf|repr. in]] ''Photography, Current Perspectives'', ed. Jerome Liebling, Light Impressions, 1978, pp 231-255; [http://blogs.macba.cat/pei/files/2011/01/PATG_DismantlingModenism.pdf repr. in] Sekula, ''Photography Against the Grain'', 1984, pp 53-75.
* "Photography between Labour and Capital", in ''Mining Photographs and Other Pictures: A Selection from the Negative Archives of Shedden Studio, Glace Bay, Cape Breton, 1948-1968'', eds. Benjamin H.D. Buchloh and Robert Wilkie, Halifax: Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1983, pp 193-268.
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* [[Media:Sekula_1986_The_Body_and_the_Archive.pdf|"The Body and the Archive"]], ''October'' 39 (Winter 1986), pp 3-64.
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* [[Media:Sekula_Allan_1981_The_Traffic_in_Photographs.pdf|"The Traffic in Photographs"]], ''Art Journal'' 41:1, Spring 1981, pp 15-25.
* [http://vivi.akbild.ac.at/Video_und_Videoinstallation/Archiv_files/Sekula_Asher.pdf "Michael Asher - Down to Earth"] ''Michael Asher – Kunstraum'', ed. Martin Fritz, Vienna: Kunstraum, 1996, pp 30-35; [http://www.afterall.org/journal/issue.1/michael.asher.down.earth repr. in] ''Afterall'' 1, London, Autumn/Winter 2000.
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* [[Media:Sekula_Allan_2002_Between_the_Net_and_the_Deep_Blue_Sea.pdf|"Between the Net and the Deep Blue Sea (Rethinking the Traffic in Photographs)"]], ''October'' 102 (Autumn 2002), pp 3-34.
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* [[Media:Sekula_Alan 1983_Photography Between Labour and Capital.pdf|"Photography Between Labour and Capital"]], in ''Mining Photographs and Other Pictures: A Selection from the Negative Archives of Shedden Studio, Glace Bay, Cape Breton, 1948-1968'', eds. Benjamin H.D. Buchloh and Robert Wilkie, Halifax: Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1983, pp 193-268; shortened as [[Media:Sekula_Allan_1983_2003_Reading_an_Archive.pdf|"Reading An Archive: Photography Between Labour and Capitalism"]], in ''The Photography Reader'', ed. Liz Wells, New York: Routledge, 2003, pp 443-452.
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* [[Media:Sekula_1986_The_Body_and_the_Archive.pdf|"The Body and the Archive"]], ''October'' 39, Winter 1986, pp 3-64.
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* "Sketch for a Geography Lesson/Entwurf zu einer Geographiestunde", ''Camera Austria International'' 25, 1988, pp 19-22, [http://aaaaarg.fail/thing/58d944849ff37c4e19cb0f89 ARG]. {{en}}/{{de}}
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** "Schiță pentru o lecție de geografie", trans. Sorin-Dănuț Radu & Claudiu-Sebastian Dinu-Osman, ''Târgoviştea Literară'', Anul VI, no. 4, octombrie-decembrie 2017, pp 95-97, [http://tgvliterara.blogspot.ro/2017/12/stiinte-umaniste-si-arte-claudiu.html?m=1 HTML]. [https://archive.org/details/SchitaPentruOLectieDeGeografie Draft], [https://archive.org/details/SchitaScanatDec2017 IA]. {{ro}}
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* [[Media:Sekula Allan 1996 Michael Asher Down to Earth.pdf|"Michael Asher - Down to Earth"]], in ''Michael Asher – Kunstraum'', ed. Martin Fritz, Vienna: Kunstraum, 1996, pp 30-35; [http://www.afterall.org/journal/issue.1/michael.asher.down.earth repr. in] ''Afterall'' 1, London, Autumn/Winter 2000.
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* [[Media:Sekula_Allan_2002_Between_the_Net_and_the_Deep_Blue_Sea.pdf|"Between the Net and the Deep Blue Sea (Rethinking the Traffic in Photographs)"]], ''October'' 102, Autumn 2002, pp 3-34.
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* "La política de la fotografía", trans. Elena Llorens Pujol, in ''Efecto real: debates posmodernos sobre fotografía'', ed. Jorge Ribalta, Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 2004, pp 35-64. {{es}}
 
* "La política de la fotografía", trans. Elena Llorens Pujol, in ''Efecto real: debates posmodernos sobre fotografía'', ed. Jorge Ribalta, Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 2004, pp 35-64. {{es}}
* "Debating Occupy", ''Art in America'' (June/July 2012), p 103.
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* [http://archive.org/details/GreyRoomVolume55Issue2014doi10.11622FGREYA00142SekulaAllanAnEternalEstheticsOfLaboriousGestures "An Eternal Esthetics of Laborious Gestures"], ''Grey Room'' 55 (Spring 2014), pp 16-27.
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* "Debating Occupy", ''Art in America'', June/July 2012, p 103.
* [http://archive.org/details/GreyRoomVolume55Issue2014doi10.11622FGREYA00143SekulaAllanPhotographyAndTheLimitsOfNationalIdentity "Photography and the Limits of National Identity"], ''Grey Room'' 55 (Spring 2014), pp 28-33.
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* [http://archive.org/details/GreyRoomVolume55Issue2014doi10.11622FGREYA00142SekulaAllanAnEternalEstheticsOfLaboriousGestures "An Eternal Esthetics of Laborious Gestures"], ''Grey Room'' 55, Spring 2014, pp 16-27.
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* [http://archive.org/details/GreyRoomVolume55Issue2014doi10.11622FGREYA00143SekulaAllanPhotographyAndTheLimitsOfNationalIdentity "Photography and the Limits of National Identity"], ''Grey Room'' 55, Spring 2014, pp 28-33.
  
 
==Films==
 
==Films==
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* http://www.documenta14.de/en/artists/7367/allan-sekula
  
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Allan Sekula, Self-Portrait (Lendo, 12/22/02), 2002-03, cibachrome, 15 x 21".
Born January 15, 1951(1951-01-15)
Erie, Pennsylvania, United States
Died August 10, 2013(2013-08-10) (aged 62)
Los Angeles, United States
Web Wikipedia

Allan Sekula (1951-2013) was an American photographer, writer, filmmaker, theorist and critic. From 1985 until his death, he taught at California Institute of the Arts.

From the early 1970s, Sekula’s works with photographic sequences, written texts, slide shows and sound recordings have traveled a path close to cinema, sometimes referring to specific films. However, with the exception of a few video works from the early 70s and early 80s, he has stayed away from the moving image. This changed in 2001, with the first work that Sekula was willing to call a film, Tsukiji, a “city symphony” set in Tokyo’s giant fish market.

His books range from the theory and history of photography to studies of family life in the grip of the military industrial complex, and in Fish Story, to explorations of the world maritime economy. (Source)

He began staging performances and creating installations in the early 1970s. Heavily influenced by the ports of San Pedro, Sekula’s works often focused on the shipping industry and ocean travel.

Publications

Photography Against the Grain: Essays and Photo Works 1973-1983, Halifax, 1984.
Fish Story, 1995/2002, Log, PDF.

Books and catalogues

  • Photography Against the Grain: Essays and Photo Works, 1973-1983, Halifax: Press of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1984, 259 pp; repr., London: MACK, 2017, 260 pp. [1]
  • Fish Story, Düsseldorf: Richter, 1995, 204 pp; 2nd ed., rev., 2002, 206 pp, PDF, ARG.
    • Seemannsgarn, trans. Wolfgang Himmelberg, Düsseldorf: Richter, 2002, 208 pp. (German)
  • Allan Sekula: Dead Letter Office, Rotterdam: Nederlands Foto Instituut, 1997, 54 pp. (English)/(Dutch)
  • Geography Lesson: Canadian Notes, MIT Press, 1997.
  • Dismal Science: Photoworks 1972-1996, ed. Debra Risberg, Illinois State University, 1999, 272 pp. [2]
  • Titanic's Wake, Cherbourg-Octeville: Point du jour, 2003, 119 pp. (English)/(French)
  • Performance under Working Conditions, ed. Sabine Breitwieser, Ostfildern-Ruit: Generali Foundation/Hatje Cantz, 2003, 352 pp. [3] (English)/(German)
  • Polonia and Other Fables / Polonia i inne opowieści, ed. Karolina Lewandowska, Chicago: The Renaissance society at The University of Chicago, and Warsaw: Zache̜ta National Gallery of Art, 2009, 117 pp. (English)/(Polish)
  • with Wombell Paul, Sontag Susan, Berger John, Burgin Victor, Barthes Roland and others, Anni 70. Fotografia e vita quotidiana, Silvana, 2009. Catalogue (Italian)
Ecrits sur la photographie: 1974-1986, 2013
  • Ecrits sur la photographie: 1974-1986, trans. and intro Marie Muracciole, Paris: Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, 2013. (French)
  • Ship of Fools / The Dockers' Museum, ed. and intro Hilde Van Gelder, Leuven University Press, 2015, 240 pp. [4]
  • Facing the Music: Documenting Walt Disney Hall and the Redevelopment of Downtown Los Angeles, ed. Edward Dimendberg, East of Borneo Books, 2015, 240 p.
  • with Giorgio Agamben, Ariella Azoulay, Roland Barthes, Georges Didi-Huberman, Harun Farocki and others, Walead Beshty: Picture Industry Paperback, JRP Ringier, 2017, 608 pp.

Selected articles

  • "On the Invention of Photographic Meaning", Artforum 13:5, Jan 1975, pp 36-45; repr. in Photography in Print, ed. Vicki Goldberg, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1981, pp 452-473; repr. in Thinking Photography ed. Victor Burgin, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1982, pp 84-109; repr. in Sekula, Photography Against the Grain, 1984, pp 3-21.
  • "The Instrumental Image: Steichen at War", Artforum 14:4, Dec 1975, pp 26-35.
  • "Dismantling Modernism, Reinventing Documentary (Notes on the Politics of Representation)", The Massachusetts Review 19:4, Dec 1978, pp 859-883; repr. in Photography, Current Perspectives, ed. Jerome Liebling, Light Impressions, 1978, pp 231-255; repr. in Sekula, Photography Against the Grain, 1984, pp 53-75.
  • "Sketch for a Geography Lesson/Entwurf zu einer Geographiestunde", Camera Austria International 25, 1988, pp 19-22, ARG. (English)/(German)
    • "Schiță pentru o lecție de geografie", trans. Sorin-Dănuț Radu & Claudiu-Sebastian Dinu-Osman, Târgoviştea Literară, Anul VI, no. 4, octombrie-decembrie 2017, pp 95-97, HTML. Draft, IA. (Romanian)
  • "La política de la fotografía", trans. Elena Llorens Pujol, in Efecto real: debates posmodernos sobre fotografía, ed. Jorge Ribalta, Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 2004, pp 35-64. (Spanish)
  • "Debating Occupy", Art in America, June/July 2012, p 103.

Films

  • A Short Film for Laos, 2006. [5]
  • The Forgotten Space, 2010. [6]

Interviews

Literature

Links