# Photography Against the Grain: Essays and Photo Works, 1973–1983

- **Brand:** MACK
- **Price:** $50.00
- **Catalog:** mackbooks
- **Retailer:** mackbooks
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- **GTIN:** 9781910164495
- **Availability:** In stock

## Summary

Photography Against the Grain: Essays and Photo Works, 1973–1983 by Allan Sekula. A silkscreened OTA-bound softback book featuring a black cover with a light green graphic illustration.

## Description

Long out of print, this seminal collection of essays and photographs by artist, theorist, and filmmaker Allan Sekula was originally published by the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1984. Sekula sought to portray the inextricable bond between labour and material culture, drawing deeply on Marxist theory to argue passionately for a collective model of progress. Sekula taught at California Institute of Arts (CalArts) from 1985 until his death in 2013, and from that insider’s position he critiqued photography and the circumstances of its production and consumption, exposing what the medium failed to represent – women, labourers, minorities, and the institutional structures that reinforce cultural biases. Allan Sekula (1951–2013) was an American artist, whose work spans multiple media: long form photographic series (Aerospace Folktales, 1973; School as a Factory,1980; War Without Bodies, 1991/96), critical texts (The Body and the Archive, 1986 and Debating Occupy, 2012) and film (The Forgotten Space, 2012).

## Variants

- **In stock:** 1 of 1

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## Categories

- **Categories:** Art Theory Books

## Additional Attributes

- **ISBN:** 978-1-910164-49-5
- **tags:** Allan Sekula, transfer
- **pages:** 250 pages
- **author:** Allan Sekula
- **format:** Silkscreened OTA-bound softback
- **vendor:** MACK
- **binding:** Silkscreened OTA-bound softback
- **publisher:** MACK
- **dimensions:** 21.5 x 27.7 cm
- **page count:** 250 pages
- **product type:** Art Theory Books
- **listed prices:** €45 £40 US$50 AU$95
- **shopify handle:** photography-against-the-grain-essays-and-photo-works-1973-1983-br-allan-sekula
- **publication date:** Publication date: October 2016
- **dimensions and pages:** 250 pages, 70,000 words

## Enrichment

- **Type:** book
- **Type Synonyms:** art book, essay collection, monograph
- **Tags:** softback, silkscreened, textbook, photography book
- **Styles:** minimalist, academic
- **Category Path:** Media > Books > Print Books
- **Book cover type:** Paperback, Soft
- **Genre:** Arts, Design, Philosophy, Society & culture
- **Language version:** ENG- English
- **Target audience:** Adults
- **Canonical Brand:** MACK

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