About the American photographer and critic Allan SEKULA (1951-2013)

Allan SEKULA mainly worked with photographic means. He achieved greater fame with the work 'Fish Story', which was shown at Documenta11. He also took part in documenta 12. Allan SEKULA lived in Los Angeles and has taught photography and media art at CalArts since 1985.

Photo and text books by Allan SEKULA

'Art isn't fair. Further Essays on the Traffic in Photographs and Related Media' (2020); 'Okeanos' (2017); 'Performance under Working Conditions' (2003); 'Titanic's wake' (2003); 'Fish Story' (1995, 2002 new published as 'Seemannsgarn', 2018); 'Photography against the Grain. Essays and Photo Works 1973–1983' (1984, 2016)


Compilation of textual, photographic & filmic essays, 'Art Isn't Fair', underlines Allan SEKULA's longstanding commitment to the many interfaces between art, photography and the changing terrain of power struggles from a local & international perspective.
48,00 € *
Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 296 pp., 98 color ills., text language: English
38,00 € *
The Essays from the 1970s and 80s in 'Photography Against the Grain' by Allan SEKULA show how he criticized photography, the circumstances of its production and consumption, and revealed from the perspective of an insider what the medium did not depict.
42,00 € *