{"product_id":"photography-against-the-grain-allan-sekula","title":"Photography Against the Grain, Allan Sekula","description":"\u003cp\u003eLong out of print, this seminal collection of essays and photographs are by artist, theorist and filmmaker, Allan Sekula. Originally published by the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1984, in these essays and images 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\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\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by MACK Books\u003cbr\u003e Softcover\u003cbr\u003e 250 pages\u003cbr\u003e 280 × 215 mm\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 9781910164495\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MACK Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":4178681987103,"sku":"PATGAS01","price":25.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2538\/3478\/products\/PhotographyAgainstTheGrain_9c470a60-dcac-4257-befb-72aa97638eb5.jpg?v=1606395181","url":"https:\/\/www.thelibraryproject.ie\/da\/products\/photography-against-the-grain-allan-sekula","provider":"The Library Project","version":"1.0","type":"link"}