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| − | '''Allan Sekula''' was born 1951 in the USA | + | {{Infobox artist |
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| + | |caption = Allan Sekula, Self-Portrait (Lendo, 12/22/02), 2002-03, cibachrome, 15 by 21 inches. | ||
| + | |birth_date = {{birth date|1951|1|15|mf=y}} | ||
| + | |birth_place = Erie, Pennsylvania | ||
| + | |death_date = {{Death date and age|2013|10|8|1951|1|15|mf=y}} | ||
| + | |death_place = US | ||
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| + | '''Allan Sekula''' was born 1951 in the USA, lived and worked in Los Angeles. He was a photographer, film maker, theoretician and art critique. | ||
| − | Not only since his participation at the documenta 11 and 12, has his work been highly discussed in the context of contemporary art dealing with socio-economic and cultural changes within globalized economy and policy. Through his photography, the artist, theoretician and scholar aspires to | + | Not only since his participation at the documenta 11 and 12, has his work been highly discussed in the context of contemporary art dealing with socio-economic and cultural changes within globalized economy and policy. Through his photography, the artist, theoretician and scholar aspires to "reinvent the documentarism in ways that differ from the tradition of social documentary as well as from artistic photography and conceptual thinking" (Allan Sekula, Interview with Benjamin H.D. Buchloh). |
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| + | "As a writer, Allan described with great clarity and passion what photography can, and must do: document the facts of social relations while opening a more metaphoric space to allow viewers the idea that things could be different," said school of art dean Thomas Lawson in a statement. [http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/news/allan-sekula-1951-2013] | ||
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| + | 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. | ||
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| + | Last year, 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). | ||
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| + | He died on August 2013, aged 62, following a long struggle with cancer. | ||
==Books== | ==Books== | ||
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* [[Media:Sekula_Allan_Fish_Story.pdf|''Fish Story'']], 1995, 2002. | * [[Media:Sekula_Allan_Fish_Story.pdf|''Fish Story'']], 1995, 2002. | ||
* ''Dead Letter Office'', 1997. | * ''Dead Letter Office'', 1997. | ||
| + | * ''Dismal Science: Photoworks 1972-1996'', 1999. | ||
* ''Seemannsgarn'', 2002. | * ''Seemannsgarn'', 2002. | ||
* ''Titanic's Wake'', 2003. | * ''Titanic's Wake'', 2003. | ||
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 Allan Sekula, Self-Portrait (Lendo, 12/22/02), 2002-03, cibachrome, 15 by 21 inches. | |
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January 15, 1951 Erie, Pennsylvania |
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| Died |
October 8, 2013 (aged 62) US |
Allan Sekula was born 1951 in the USA, lived and worked in Los Angeles. He was a photographer, film maker, theoretician and art critique.
Not only since his participation at the documenta 11 and 12, has his work been highly discussed in the context of contemporary art dealing with socio-economic and cultural changes within globalized economy and policy. Through his photography, the artist, theoretician and scholar aspires to "reinvent the documentarism in ways that differ from the tradition of social documentary as well as from artistic photography and conceptual thinking" (Allan Sekula, Interview with Benjamin H.D. Buchloh).
"As a writer, Allan described with great clarity and passion what photography can, and must do: document the facts of social relations while opening a more metaphoric space to allow viewers the idea that things could be different," said school of art dean Thomas Lawson in a statement. [1]
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.
Last year, 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 on August 2013, aged 62, following a long struggle with cancer.
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.
- Selected articles
- "The Traffic in Photographs", Art Journal, Vol. 41, No. 1, Photography and the Scholar/Critic (Spring, 1981): 15-25.
- "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.
- Literature
- About Allan 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.
