Main entry:

Sekula, Allan, photographer, interviewee (expression)

Title & Author:

Allan Sekula : collective Sisyphus / editors, Carles Guerra, Anja Isabel Schneider, Hilde Van Gelder ; translations, Vicente Campos (to Spanish).

Publication:

London : Koenig Books, [2019]
©2019

Description:

237 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Statement of responsibility from page 228.
"With contributions by Jürgen Bock, Bart De Baere, Carles Guerra, Anja Isabel Schneider, Allan Sekula, Hilde Van Gelder, Jeroen Verbeeck."--Page 228.
Published to document the exhibition held at Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain, 14 June-25 September 2017.
Exhibition curators: Carles Guerra, Anja Isabel Schneider, Hilde Van Gelder.
"The exhibition is co-organized by the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography, Art and Visual Culture (LGC), KU Leuven/Université catholique de Louvain, and M HKA, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp."--Page 228.
Includes bibliographical references.
(from table of contents) Preface / Bart De Baere, Carles Guerra, Anja Isabel Schneider, Hilde Van Gelder -- Revisiting, reflecting, recalling : activism as collective intelligence / Bart De Baere & Anja Isabel Schneider -- A modest gesture : modalities of protest in Allan Sekula's "Fish story" (1989-95) / Jeroen Verbeeck -- Nemo's abyss / Hilde Van Gelder -- Extract from a public discussion between Allan Sekula and Jürgen Bock, Rennes, La Criée, April 7, 2012 / edited by Hilde Van Gelder -- List of works -- Textos en español.
Texts in English with Spanish translation (pages 164-227, 232-237).

Summary:

Allan Sekula is one of the most important figures in modern photography of the second half of the twentieth century. His work focuses on a critique of the links that photography has always maintained with the economy, work and the politics of representation. From his beginnings in the seventies, Sekula became a reference by incorporating textuality into photography in a way that had been previously denied it by modern art. His book 'Photography Against the Grain: Essays and Photo Works, 1973-1983 (1984)', a key work of the new photographic discourse of the late twentieth century, enshrined him as one of the least orthodox historians of the medium. Art Against the Grain or 'Collective Sisyphus: The Case of Allan Sekula's Ship of Fools / The Dockers' Museum (2010-2013)' is a major and long-term research project jointly pursued by M HKA (Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp) and the Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography, Art, and Visual Culture (2014-2019). It has received generous funding by the Research Council of the University of Leuven and by the Research Foundation-Flanders. Co-published with Fondacio Tapies.

ISBN:

9783960986904 (paperback)
3960986904 (paperback)

Subject:

Sekula, Allan Exhibitions.
Sekula, Allan
Photography, Artistic Exhibitions.
Photographie artistique Expositions.
Photography, Artistic

Form/genre:

Exhibition publications.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Guerra, Carles, 1965- organizer, editor.
Schneider, Anja Isabel, organizer, editor, writer of added commentary.
Gelder, Hilde van, organizer, editor, writer of added commentary.
Campos, Vicente, translator.
Baere, Bart de, writer of added commentary.
Verbeeck, Jeroen, writer of added commentary.
Bock, Jürgen, 1962- interviewer (expression)
Fundació Antoni Tàpies, host institution, organizer.
Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography, Art and Visual Culture, organizer.
Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven (1970- ), organizer.
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, organizer.

Collective Sisyphus

Holdings:

Location: Library main 309121
Call No.: BIB 254401
Status: Available