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Amphibious Realities: The Documentary Poetics of Allan Sekula

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Availability:In StockContributor:Gail Day, Steve EdwardsPublish date:11/25/2025Pages:320
Languages:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9781804295045ISBN-10:1804295043UPC:9781804295045Book Category:Photography, Philosophy, ArtBook Subcategory:Individual Photographers, Aesthetics, Individual ArtistsSize:9.13 x 6.19 x 0.89 inchesWeight:1.0207Product ID:SCKPNBM5P3
AN ACUTE, OVERARCHING ANALYSIS OF ALLAN SEKULA'S PHOTOGRAPHY, FILM AND PROSE, ILLUMINATING HIS CRITIQUE OF NEOLIBERAL CAPITALISM

The photographer, filmmaker and theorist Allan Sekula (1951-2013) was one of the most significant media intellectuals of the last fifty years, renowned for a sequence of compelling anti-capitalist artworks. This penetrating study pursues surprising paths through his practice, delineating the depicted top­ics as well as his dialectics of form. Posing new questions about the rela­tions between aesthetics and politics, Gail Day and Steve Edwards consider Sekula's examination of image modes alongside his radical investigations of terraqueous capitalism.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9781804295045ISBN-10:1804295043UPC:9781804295045Book Category:Photography, Philosophy, ArtBook Subcategory:Individual Photographers, Aesthetics, Individual ArtistsSize:9.13 x 6.19 x 0.89 inchesWeight:1.0207Product ID:SCKPNBM5P3
Steve Edwards is Professor of History & Theory of Photography at Birkbeck, University of London. His publications have been translated into twelve languages and include: The Making of English Photography, Allegories; Photography: A Very Short Introduction; and Martha Rosler the Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems. He is an editorial member of Oxford Art Journal and the Historical Materialism Book Series, as well as a convenor for the research seminar Marxism in Culture.

Gail Day's Dialectical Passions: Negation and Postwar Art Theory was shortlisted for the Isaac & Tamara Deutscher Prize. She is Professor of Art History and Critical Theory at the University of Leeds. She co-convenes the Marxism in Culture research seminar. She collaborated on the research programme Aesthetic Form & Uneven Modernity with Centro de Estudos Desmanche e Formação de Sistemas Simbólicos at Universidade de São Paulo. Meeting Steve years later, she belonged to a rival faction at the same Black Country discos.
Publisher: Verso

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