Allan Sekula
Biographic Data
| ID | 241874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allan Sekula |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allan |
| FAMILY NAME | Sekula |
| SIGNATURE | SEKULA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Photometrics (United States) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 263 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
O tráfego nas fotografias
Escrito na fase inicial da carreira do artista e pesquisador estadunidense Allan Sekula, O tráfego nas fotografias (1981) é um ensaio que investiga e problematiza a noção de linguagem universal atribuída à fotografia. Segundo uma abordagem materialista-histórica, o autor analisa a função política desempenhada pelos discur- sos estéticos e científicos atrelados ao meio fotográfico, dentro dos quais a noção de universalidade cumpre uma função de do…
Photography and the Limits of National Identity
April 01 2014 Photography and the Limits of National Identity Allan Sekula Allan Sekula Allan Sekula (1951–2013) was an artist, photographer, historian, critic, and filmmaker. His many books include Photography against the Grain: Essays and Photo Works 1973–1983 (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1984), Fish Story (Witte de With/Richter Verlag, 1995), Geography Lesson: Canadian Notes (MIT Press, 1997), Dismal Science: Photo Works 1972–1996 (…
An Eternal Esthetics of Laborious Gestures
April 01 2014 An Eternal Esthetics of Laborious Gestures Allan Sekula Allan Sekula Allan Sekula (1951–2013) was an artist, photographer, historian, critic, and filmmaker. His many books include Photography against the Grain: Essays and Photo Works 1973–1983 (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1984), Fish Story (Witte de With/Richter Verlag, 1995), Geography Lesson: Canadian Notes (MIT Press, 1997), Dismal Science: Photo Works 1972–1996 (Illin…
Found Paintings, Disassembled Movies, World Images
April 01 2014 Found Paintings, Disassembled Movies, World Images Allan Sekula, Allan Sekula Allan Sekula (1951–2013) was an artist, photographer, historian, critic, and filmmaker. His many books include Photography against the Grain: Essays and Photo Works 1973–1983 (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1984), Fish Story (Witte de With/Richter Verlag, 1995), Geography Lesson: Canadian Notes (MIT Press, 1997), Dismal Science: Photo Works 1972–19…
The Forgotten Space
Dear Bill Gates , 1999
Between the Net and the Deep Blue Sea (Rethinking the Traffic in Photographs)
My subtitle recalls an essay I wrote more than twenty years ago, in an effort to understand the long-held belief that photography is a “universal language,” a language legible, as one enthusiastic early American press report on the daguerreotype put it, “in the courts of civilization and the hut of the savage.”1 The wording here was quaint, even for its time, as the white-settler republic drove relentlessly westward, indifferent to the way a rene…
Freeway to China (Version 2, for Liverpool)
Waiting for tear gas
Freeway to China (Version 2, for Liverpool)
Untitled Slide Sequence. 1972
Image Polemics
The Body and the Archive
Images of Ideology and the Ideology of Imagery
On the Invention of Photographic Meaning
The meaning of a photograph, like that of any other entity, is inevitably subject to cultural definition. The task here is to define and engage critically something we might call the 'photographic discourse'. A discourse can be defined as an arena of information exchange, that is, as a system of relations between parties engaged in communicative activity. In a very important sense the notion of discourse is a notion of limits. That is, the overal…
The Traffic in Photographs
I. Introduction: Between Aestheticism and ScientismHow can we work towards an active, critical understanding of the prevailing conventions of representation, particularly those surrounding photography? The discourse that surrounds photography speaks paradoxically of discipline and freedom, of rigorous truths and unleashed pleasures. Here then, at least by virtue of a need to contain the tensions inherent in this paradox, is the site of a certain …
Meditations on a triptych
Other| June 01 1978 Meditations on a triptych Allan Sekula Allan Sekula Allan Sekula is an artist and critic living in Southern California. (1973-78) © copyright 1978 Allan Sekula Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1978) 6 (1-2): 32–33. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1978.6.1-2.32 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter L…
The Body and the Archive
Photography and the Limits of National Identity
April 01 2014 Photography and the Limits of National Identity Allan Sekula Allan Sekula Allan Sekula (1951–2013) was an artist, photographer, historian, critic, and filmmaker. His many books include Photography against the Grain: Essays and Photo Works 1973–1983 (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1984), Fish Story (Witte de With/Richter Verlag, 1995), Geography Lesson: Canadian Notes (MIT Press, 1997), Dismal Science: Photo Works 1972–1996 (…
Between the Net and the Deep Blue Sea (Rethinking the Traffic in Photographs)
My subtitle recalls an essay I wrote more than twenty years ago, in an effort to understand the long-held belief that photography is a “universal language,” a language legible, as one enthusiastic early American press report on the daguerreotype put it, “in the courts of civilization and the hut of the savage.”1 The wording here was quaint, even for its time, as the white-settler republic drove relentlessly westward, indifferent to the way a rene…
Freeway to China (Version 2, for Liverpool)
An Eternal Esthetics of Laborious Gestures
April 01 2014 An Eternal Esthetics of Laborious Gestures Allan Sekula Allan Sekula Allan Sekula (1951–2013) was an artist, photographer, historian, critic, and filmmaker. His many books include Photography against the Grain: Essays and Photo Works 1973–1983 (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1984), Fish Story (Witte de With/Richter Verlag, 1995), Geography Lesson: Canadian Notes (MIT Press, 1997), Dismal Science: Photo Works 1972–1996 (Illin…
Untitled Slide Sequence. 1972
Image Polemics
Meditations on a triptych
Other| June 01 1978 Meditations on a triptych Allan Sekula Allan Sekula Allan Sekula is an artist and critic living in Southern California. (1973-78) © copyright 1978 Allan Sekula Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1978) 6 (1-2): 32–33. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1978.6.1-2.32 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter L…
The Traffic in Photographs
I. Introduction: Between Aestheticism and ScientismHow can we work towards an active, critical understanding of the prevailing conventions of representation, particularly those surrounding photography? The discourse that surrounds photography speaks paradoxically of discipline and freedom, of rigorous truths and unleashed pleasures. Here then, at least by virtue of a need to contain the tensions inherent in this paradox, is the site of a certain …
On the Invention of Photographic Meaning
The meaning of a photograph, like that of any other entity, is inevitably subject to cultural definition. The task here is to define and engage critically something we might call the 'photographic discourse'. A discourse can be defined as an arena of information exchange, that is, as a system of relations between parties engaged in communicative activity. In a very important sense the notion of discourse is a notion of limits. That is, the overal…
Images of Ideology and the Ideology of Imagery
Image Polemics
The Body and the Archive
Untitled Slide Sequence. 1972
Freeway to China (Version 2, for Liverpool)
Freeway to China (Version 2, for Liverpool)
Waiting for tear gas
Between the Net and the Deep Blue Sea (Rethinking the Traffic in Photographs)
My subtitle recalls an essay I wrote more than twenty years ago, in an effort to understand the long-held belief that photography is a “universal language,” a language legible, as one enthusiastic early American press report on the daguerreotype put it, “in the courts of civilization and the hut of the savage.”1 The wording here was quaint, even for its time, as the white-settler republic drove relentlessly westward, indifferent to the way a rene…
Dear Bill Gates , 1999
The Forgotten Space
Photography and the Limits of National Identity
April 01 2014 Photography and the Limits of National Identity Allan Sekula Allan Sekula Allan Sekula (1951–2013) was an artist, photographer, historian, critic, and filmmaker. His many books include Photography against the Grain: Essays and Photo Works 1973–1983 (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1984), Fish Story (Witte de With/Richter Verlag, 1995), Geography Lesson: Canadian Notes (MIT Press, 1997), Dismal Science: Photo Works 1972–1996 (…
An Eternal Esthetics of Laborious Gestures
April 01 2014 An Eternal Esthetics of Laborious Gestures Allan Sekula Allan Sekula Allan Sekula (1951–2013) was an artist, photographer, historian, critic, and filmmaker. His many books include Photography against the Grain: Essays and Photo Works 1973–1983 (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1984), Fish Story (Witte de With/Richter Verlag, 1995), Geography Lesson: Canadian Notes (MIT Press, 1997), Dismal Science: Photo Works 1972–1996 (Illin…
Found Paintings, Disassembled Movies, World Images
April 01 2014 Found Paintings, Disassembled Movies, World Images Allan Sekula, Allan Sekula Allan Sekula (1951–2013) was an artist, photographer, historian, critic, and filmmaker. His many books include Photography against the Grain: Essays and Photo Works 1973–1983 (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1984), Fish Story (Witte de With/Richter Verlag, 1995), Geography Lesson: Canadian Notes (MIT Press, 1997), Dismal Science: Photo Works 1972–19…
O tráfego nas fotografias
Escrito na fase inicial da carreira do artista e pesquisador estadunidense Allan Sekula, O tráfego nas fotografias (1981) é um ensaio que investiga e problematiza a noção de linguagem universal atribuída à fotografia. Segundo uma abordagem materialista-histórica, o autor analisa a função política desempenhada pelos discur- sos estéticos e científicos atrelados ao meio fotográfico, dentro dos quais a noção de universalidade cumpre uma função de do…
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