Fish Story

Fish Story by Allan Sekula. First edition. First impression. Large format paperback (issued simultaneous to the hardback. In near fine condition, no internal markings. Pages clean, binding firm. There is some creasing to the rear cover and a bar code sticker on the inside. Please see pictures. PayPal accepted, any questions please get in touch.

About Fish Story

Completed between 1989 and 1995,Fish Storysaw Allan Sekulas career-long pursuit of a contemporary critical realism reach its most complex articulation.Fish Storyreconstructed a realist model of photographic representation, while taking a critical stance towards traditional documentary photography. It also marked Sekulas rst sustained exploration of the ocean as a key space of globalisation. A key issue inFish Storyis the connection between containerized cargo movement and the growing internationalization of the world industrial economy, with its effects on the actual social space of ports.

The ambition ofFish Storylies both in its immense complexity and global scope and in its emphatic challenge to the dominant climate of postmodern theory and practice of the late 1980s and early 1990s.Fish Storyoccupies a pivotal place in a gradual shift, still nascent in the early 1990s, from a widespread culture of resignation and cynicism to one of renewed radical engagement in the art world.

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