| Fish Story [Click on the appropriate flag to buy the book] | Product Details Hardcover 204 pages Distributed Art Publishers Published 1996 Language Notes Text: German About the Author Born in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1951, Allan Sekula is a leading theoretician and the Director of the Photography Department at California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. His previous books include Photography Against the Grain: Essays and Photo Works 1973-1983, The Traffic in Photographs, and Dismal Science. Sekula's work will be included in Documenta11, in summer 2002. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Book Description American artist and writer Allan Sekula spent seven years photographing harbors and port cities around the world. Starting out in Los Angeles and San Diego, he traveled as far as Korea, Scotland, and Poland, photographing the prosperity, poverty, and political powers that continue to play out in major port cities across the world. The result was Fish Story, a seven-chapter illustrated tomb with more than 900 color photographs, that questions what remains of our port cities in the wake of a globalized economy. Essay by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh. Reprint of the 1995 edition from Richter Verlag. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. |
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