An edition of Art isn't fair (2020)

Art isn't fair

further essays on the traffic in photographs and related media

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Art isn't fair
Allan Sekula, Allan Sekula
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An edition of Art isn't fair (2020)

Art isn't fair

further essays on the traffic in photographs and related media

First edition.
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Art Isn't Fair is the title of the last video completed in 2012 by Allan Sekula (1951-2013), a work commenting on the rise of art fairs as yet another international gathering of moneyed elites. This new compilation of textual, photographic and filmic essays underscores Sekula's longstanding engagement with the many intersections between art, photography, and the shifting terrain of power struggles from both a local and international perspective. Bringing together an ensemble of works that Sekula never had the chance to publish together before his death in 2013, this new collection expands our sense of the persistent depth and breadth of Sekula's concerns and commitments. The volume includes the widely-cited extended Sekula essay, The Body and the Archive (1986), less well-known but equally comprehensive historical critiques such as Photography between Labour and Capital (1983), the artist's reconsideration of his own early work, plus numerous essays on other artists and photographers from Walker Evans to Robert Mapplethorpe, Susan Meiselas, James Benning and the contemporary Canadian masters of political montage, Carole Condé & Karl Beveridge. The volume concludes with the narrative transcript along with select stills from 'Art Isn't Fair'.

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Mack
Language
English
Pages
326

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Table of Contents

Editorial foreword / Sally Stein and Ina Steiner
A short autobiography (1971)
Photography between labour and capital (1983)
Geography lesson: Canadian notes (1986)
The body and the archive (1986)
'Gay-bashing' as an art form: the Mapplethorpe affair reveals a linkage of quirky conservative impulses in art, economics and politics (1989)
Walker Evans and the police (1992)
Foreword to Manhole covers by Mimi Melnick with photographs by Robert A. Melnick (1994)
An eternal esthetics of laborious gestures (1996)
Michael Asher - down to Earth (1999)
Waiting for tear gas [white globe to black] (1999-2000)
Waiting for Los Angeles, in Anthony Hernandez, Waiting for Los Angeles (2002)
Between the Net and the deep blue sea [Rethinking the traffic in photographs] (2002)
Black tide: fragments for an opera (2002/2003)
From the stock room to the hospitality suite: notes on the work of Annetta Kapon (2004)
A portable national archive for a stateless people: Susan Meiselas and the Kurds/Photography and the limits of national identity (1993/2006)
The lottery of the sea (film transcription with selected stills) (2006)
Eleven premises on documentary and a question (2006)
RR JB in James Benning (2007)
...The Red Guards come and go, talking of Michelangelo, in Condé and Beveridge: class works (2008)
Translations and completions: Untitled slide sequence, 1972 ; California stories, 1973-1975 (2011-2012)
Art isn't fair (film transcription with selected stills).

Edition Notes

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
London
Other Titles
Art is not fair
Copyright Date
2020

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
111.85
Library of Congress
TR647 .S452 2020, TR647.S43 2020

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 326 pages
Number of pages
326

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL43577246M
ISBN 10
1912339846
ISBN 13
9781912339846
LCCN
2020445072
OCLC/WorldCat
1184101663

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