{"product_id":"allan-sekula-photography-against-the-grain","title":"Allan Sekula: Photography Against the Grain","description":"\u003cp\u003eLong 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAllan Sekula (1951–2013) was an American artist, whose work spans multiple media: long form photographic series (\u003cem\u003eAerospace Folktales, \u003c\/em\u003e1973;\u003cem\u003e School as a Factory,\u003c\/em\u003e1980; \u003cem\u003eWar Without Bodies,\u003c\/em\u003e 1991\/96), critical texts (\u003cem\u003eThe Body and the Archive,\u003c\/em\u003e 1986 and \u003cem\u003eDebating Occupy\u003c\/em\u003e, 2012) and film (\u003cem\u003eThe Forgotten Space,\u003c\/em\u003e 2012).\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by MACK\u003cbr\u003e2016\u003cbr\u003eUK\u003cbr\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003e21.5 x 27.7 cm\u003cbr\u003e250 pages\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MACK Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50555791769657,"sku":"210000004264","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0782\/0872\/9145\/files\/phagainsthegrain-cover1.png?v=1790280432","url":"https:\/\/shop.icp.org\/products\/allan-sekula-photography-against-the-grain","provider":"International Center of Photography","version":"1.0","type":"link"}