Fish Story
1998
$93.00
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 Story saw Allan Sekula’s career-long pursuit of a contemporary ‘critical realism’ reach its most complex articulation. Fish Story reconstructed a realist model of photographic representation, while taking a critical stance towards traditional documentary photography. It also marked Sekula’s first sustained exploration of the ocean as a key space of globalisation. A key issue in Fish Story is 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 of Fish Story lies 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 Story occupies 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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