Amphibious realities : the documentary poetics of Allan Sekula / Gail Day and Steve Edwards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Day, Gail, Author.

Edwards, Steve, 1959- author.

Contributor:

Sekula, Allan

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sekula, Allan--Criticism and interpretation.

Sekula, Allan.

Sekula, Allan--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 293 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 2025.

Summary:

"An acute, overarching analysis of Allan Sekula's photography, film and prose, illuminating his critique of neoliberal capitalism. The photographer, filmmaker and theorist Allan Sekula (1951-2013) was one of the most significant media intellectuals of the last fifty years, renowned for a sequence of compelling anti-capitalist artworks. This penetrating study pursues surprising paths through his practice, delineating the depicted topics as well as his dialectics of form. Posing new questions about the relations between aesthetics and politics, Gail Day and Steve Edwards consider Sekula's examination of image modes alongside his radical investigations of terraqueous capitalism" -- Page [4] of cover.

"This acute and overarching analysis of Allan Sekula's documentary poetics illuminates his critique of neoliberal capitalism through photography, film and prose"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : 'Against the grip of advanced capitalism'

'Capitalism's inability to deliver the conditions of a fully human life'

'A horizontal sort of beast'

A poetics in realist language

Amphibious (ir)realities and capitalism's dreamworld

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version Day, Gail Amphibious realities

ISBN:

9781804295045

1804295043

OCLC:

1458612677