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 ...
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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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Publisher:
Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art
Published:
1998
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18959000261
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Good; Softcover; Withdrawn library copy with the standard library markings; Covers are moderately shelfworn and edgeworn with a small piece of tape at the top of the spine; Library stamps to the endpapers; Text pages are clean & unmarked; Good binding; This book will be stored and delivered in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (Quatro, 10.75? ? 11.75? tall); White covers with cargo ship photo, and title in black lettering; 1998, Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art; 204 pages; "Fish Story, " by Sekula.
Add this copy of Fish Story to cart. $158.00, good condition, Sold by Found Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from AUSTIN, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Netherlands.
Add this copy of Fish Story to cart. $221.33, new condition, Sold by Just one more Chapter rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Miramar, FL, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by Witte de With Centre for Conte.
