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'''Allan Sekula''' was a photographer, film maker, theoretician and art critique.  
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'''Allan Sekula''' (1951-2013) was a photographer, writer, filmmaker, theorist and critic. From 1985 until his death, he taught at California Institute of the Arts.
  
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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.  
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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.
  
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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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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. [http://www.theforgottenspace.net/static/directors.html (Source)]
  
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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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==Publications==
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He died in 2013, following a long struggle with cancer.
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* ''[[Media:Sekula_Allan_Photography_Against_the_Grain_Essays_and_Photoworks_1973-1983.pdf|Photography Against the Grain: Essays and Photo Works 1973-1983]]'', Halifax: The Press of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1984, 259 pp.
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* with  R. Bolton, ''The Contest of Meaning: Critical Histories of Photography, 1989.
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==Literature==
 
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* ''Photography against the Grain: Essays and Photo Works 1973–1983'', 1984.
 
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* with  R. Bolton, ''The contest of meaning: critical histories of photography, 1989.
 
 
* [[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.
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* ''A Dialogue with Allan Sekula'', 2005.
 
* ''A Dialogue with Allan Sekula'', 2005.
 
* ''Polonia and Other Fables'', 2009.
 
* ''Polonia and Other Fables'', 2009.
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* ''Ecrits sur la photographie: 1974-1986'', trans. Marie Muracciole, Paris: Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, 2013. (French)  
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* ''Ecrits sur la photographie: 1974-1986'', trans. Marie Muracciole, Paris: Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, 2013. (in French)  
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* ''[[Media:Sekula_Allan_School_is_a_Factory_1978-80.pdf|School is a Factory (1978-80)]]'', n.d.
  
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; Selected articles, papers
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; Selected articles
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* [[Media:Sekula_Allan_On_the_invention_of_Photographic_Meaning_1975.pdf|"On the Invention of Photographic Meaning"]], ''Artforum'', 13:5, January 1975: 36-45.
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* [[Media:Sekula_Allan_On_the_invention_of_Photographic_Meaning_1975.pdf|"On the Invention of Photographic Meaning"]], ''Artforum'' 13:5 (Jan 1975), pp 36-45.
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* [[Media:Sekula_Allan_Dismantling_Modernism_Reinventing_Documentary_1978.pdf|"Dismantling Modernism, Reinventing Documentary (Notes on the Politics of Representation)"]], ''The Massachusetts Review'', 19:4, December 1978: 859-83.
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* [[Media:Sekula_Allan_Dismantling_Modernism_Reinventing_Documentary_1978.pdf|"Dismantling Modernism, Reinventing Documentary (Notes on the Politics of Representation)"]], ''The Massachusetts Review'' 19:4 (Dec 1978), pp 859-883.
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* [[Media:Allan-Sekula-traffic-in-Photographs.pdf|"The Traffic in Photographs"]], ''Art Journal'', Vol. 41, No. 1, Photography and the Scholar/Critic (Spring, 1981): 15-25.
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* [[Media:Allan-Sekula-traffic-in-Photographs.pdf|"The Traffic in Photographs"]], ''Art Journal'' 41:1 (Spring 1981), pp 15-25.
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* [[Media:Sekula_1986_The_Body_and_the_Archive.pdf|"Body and the Archive"]], ''October'', no. 39, Winter 1986: 3 – 64.
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* [[Media:Sekula_1986_The_Body_and_the_Archive.pdf|"Body and the Archive"]], ''October'' 39 (Winter 1986), pp 3-64.
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* "Michael Asher - Down to Earth", ''Afterall, no. 1 (London), 1999:30-35 [http://vivi.akbild.ac.at/Video_und_Videoinstallation/Archiv_files/Sekula_Asher.pdf].
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* "Michael Asher - Down to Earth", ''Afterall'' 1 (1999), London, pp 30-35; [http://vivi.akbild.ac.at/Video_und_Videoinstallation/Archiv_files/Sekula_Asher.pdf repr. in] ''Michael Asher – Kunstraum'', ed. Martin Fritz, Vienna: Kunstraum, 1996, pp 30-35.
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* [[Media:Sekula_between_the_net_and_the_deep_blue_sea.pdf|"Between the Net and the Deep Blue Sea (Rethinking the Traffic in Photographs)"]], ''October'', Vol. 102, (Autumn, 2002): 3-34.
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* [[Media:Sekula_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:Allan-SEKULA-Reading-An-Archive.pdf|"Reading An Archive:Photography between labour and capitalism"]], ''The Phtographer reader'' (ed. Liz Wells), Routledge, New York, 2003, Chap. 42: 443-452.
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* [[Media:Allan-SEKULA-Reading-An-Archive.pdf|"Reading An Archive: Photography Between Labour and Capitalism"]], ''The Photography Reader'', ed. Liz Wells, New York: Routledge, 2003, pp 443-452.
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* "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).
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* "La política de la fotografía", trans. Elena Llorens Pujol, chap. in ''Efecto real: debates posmodernos sobre fotografía', ed. Jorge Ribalta, Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 2004, pp 35-64. (in Spanish)
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* "Debating Occupy" an article for ''Art in America'', June/July 2012:103.
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* "Debating Occupy", ''Art in America'' (June/July 2012), p 103.
  
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; On Sekula
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==Films==
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* Zanny Begg, "Recasting Subjectivity. Globalisation and the Photography of Andreas Gursky and Allan Sekula", ''Third Text'', Vol. 19, Issue 6, November, 2005:625–636.
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* ''A Short Film for Laos'', 2006. [http://www.thequietintheland.com/laos/project_sekula.html]
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* Hilde Van Gelder, [[Media:Van_Gelder_Hilde_A_matter_of_cleaning_up_treating_history_2007.pdf|"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.
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* ''The Forgotten Space'', 2010. [http://www.theforgottenspace.net]
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* Caroline Sara Owen, [http://escholarship.org/uc/item/3273j910.pdf ''Allan Sekula, Margarita Cabrera and Vik Muniz: Representations of the Social Conditions and Capital Relations of Labor''], Thesis, UC Riverside, 2011.
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* Bill Roberts, "Production in View: Allan Sekula's Fish Story and the Thawing of Postmodernism", ''immediations'', 2, no. 4, December 2011:10-32 [http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/immediations].
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==Interviews==
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* Bill Roberts, "Production in View: Allan Sekula’s Fish Story and the Thawing of Postmodernism" (revised republication), ''Tate Papers'', issue 18, Autumn 2012 [http://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/production-view-allan-sekulas-fish-story-and-thawing-postmodernism].
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* [http://bombsite.com/issues/92/articles/2754 Allan Sekula by Edward Dimendberg], ''BOMB'', Summer 2005.
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* Gail Day, "Event. Allan Sekula 1951–2013" in [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=10563 ''Journal of Visual Culture 12(3): The Archives Issue''], 2013: 515-518.
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* [http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/allan_sekula/capsula At SON(I)A], audio, 13 min, RWM, Jan 2011.
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==Literature==
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* Zanny Begg, "Recasting Subjectivity. Globalisation and the Photography of Andreas Gursky and Allan Sekula", ''Third Text'' 19:6 (Nov 2005), pp 625-636.
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* Hilde Van Gelder, [[Media:Van_Gelder_Hilde_A_matter_of_cleaning_up_treating_history_2007.pdf|"A Matter of Cleaning up: Treating History in the Work of Allan Sekula and Jeff Wall"]], ''History of Photography'' 31:1 (Spring 2007), pp 68-80.
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* Caroline Sara Owen, [http://escholarship.org/uc/item/3273j910.pdf ''Allan Sekula, Margarita Cabrera and Vik Muniz: Representations of the Social Conditions and Capital Relations of Labor''], UC Riverside, 2011. Thesis.
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* Bill Roberts, "Production in View: Allan Sekula's Fish Story and the Thawing of Postmodernism", ''immediations'' 2:4 (Dec 2011), pp 10-32; [http://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/production-view-allan-sekulas-fish-story-and-thawing-postmodernism rev.], ''Tate Papers'' 18 (Autumn 2012). [http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/immediations]
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* Gail Day, "Event. Allan Sekula 1951–2013" in [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=10563 ''Journal of Visual Culture'' 12(3): "The Archives Issue"], 2013, pp 515-518.
 
* [http://www.traversee.com/Kuenstler/Allan_Sekula/AS.html More]
 
* [http://www.traversee.com/Kuenstler/Allan_Sekula/AS.html More]
  
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==Films==
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==Links==
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* ''A Short Film for Laos'', 2006 [http://www.thequietintheland.com/laos/project_sekula.html]
 
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* ''The Forgotten Space'', 2010
 
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==External links==
 
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Sekula Sekula at Wikipedia]
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Sekula Sekula at Wikipedia]
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* [http://www.theforgottenspace.net/static/directors.html Sekula on The forgotten space]
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* Obituaries: [http://calarts.edu/news/2013-aug-12/allan-sekula-1951-2013 CalArts], [http://philsteinberg.wordpress.com/2013/08/14/allan-sekula-1951-2013/ Phil Steinberg], [http://le-beau-vice.blogspot.com/2013/08/allan-sekula-1951-2013.html Elisabeth Lebovici] (in French).
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* [http://le-beau-vice.blogspot.com/2013/08/allan-sekula-1951-2013.html Sekula on the Le beau vice blog] (in French)
 
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* [http://bombsite.com/issues/92/articles/2754 Interview with Allan Sekula], ''Bomb92'' magazine/Summer 2005.
 
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* [http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/allan_sekula/capsula Interview with Allan Sekula about the relationship between art and photography], 14 min, 2011.
 
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* [http://www.stills.org/exhibition/past/allan-sekula-ship-fools Exhibition ''Ship of Fools'', 2012]
 
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* [http://philsteinberg.wordpress.com/2013/08/14/allan-sekula-1951-2013/ Sekula presented by Phil Steinberg]
 
  
 
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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

Allan Sekula (1951-2013) was a 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)

Publications

Books
  • Photography Against the Grain: Essays and Photo Works 1973-1983, Halifax: The Press of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1984, 259 pp.
  • 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. (in French)
  • School is a Factory (1978-80), n.d.
Selected articles

Films

  • A Short Film for Laos, 2006. [1]
  • The Forgotten Space, 2010. [2]

Interviews

Literature

Links

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