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Fish story

Allan Sekula

Mack, 2018

3rd rev. English ed

  • : softcover

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"Witte de With, center for contemporary art, Rotterdam, 21.01.1995-12.03.1995, Fotografiska Museet in Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 06.05.1995-27.08.1995, Tramway, Glasgow, 06.10-1995-12.11.1995, Le Channel, Scène nationale and Musée des Beaux Arts et de la Dentelle, Calais, 16.12.1995-25.02.1996, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, 15. 06.1996-25.08.1996, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, 11.02.1999-16.05.1999, Documenta 11, Kassel, 08.06.2002-15.09.2002" --T.p.verso

"Text "Allan Sekula : Photography Between Discourse and Document",[p. 189-200] Benjamin H.D. Buchloh"--last page

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Completed between 1989 and 1995, Fish Story saw Allan Sekula's career-long pursuit of a contemporary 'critical realism' reach its most complex articulation. Fish Story reconstructed a realist model of photographic representation, while taking a critical stance towards traditional documentary photography. It also marked Sekula's first sustained exploration of the ocean as a key space of globalisation. A key issue in Fish Story is the connection between containerized cargo movement and the growing internationalization of the world industrial economy, with its effects on the actual social space of ports. The ambition of Fish Story lies both in its immense complexity and global scope and in its emphatic challenge to the dominant climate of postmodern theory and practice of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Fish Story occupies a pivotal place in a gradual shift, still nascent in the early 1990s, from a widespread culture of resignation and cynicism to one of renewed radical engagement in the art world.This new edition of the long out-of-print seminal publication includes a new introduction by Professor Laleh Khalili [SOAS University].

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