Allan Sekula, du charbon à la mer : matérialisme culturel et réalisme critique

In “Working Documentary: Labor Photography and Documentary Labor in the Neoliberal Age,” Joseph B. Entin analyzes the work of Milton Rogovin and Allan Sekula. The chapter emphasizes the self-consciousness with which these acclaimed photographers of labor generated new formal strategies to contend with the limitations of conventional documentary realism. Each, he shows, produced forms of labor photography attuned to the conditions of contemporary work and responsive to the widening social and economic forces shaping workers’ experience—and each thereby reanimated, or reworked, the project of photo-documentary for a late industrial, emerging neoliberal context.

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Allan Sekula: Imagining a collective future

Philosophy of Photography ◽

10.1386/pop.4.1.129_7 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 129-137

Author(s):

Hilde Van Gelder

Keyword(s):

Allan Sekula

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Allan Sekula: Educator

Photographies ◽

10.1080/17540763.2014.884408 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 109-111

Author(s):

Lucy Soutter

Keyword(s):

Allan Sekula

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Remembering Allan Sekula (1951–2013)

October ◽

10.1162/octo_a_00178 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 148 ◽

pp. 133-142

Author(s):

Benjamin H. D. Buchloh

Keyword(s):

Los Angeles ◽

Public Sphere ◽

The Public ◽

The Past ◽

The Public Sphere ◽

Allan Sekula ◽

Hourly Basis

Having just recently returned from a rare visit to Los Angeles, and wondering about the city's loss of Michael Asher and Allan Sekula in the past year and a half, I was suddenly struck by the idea that these artists must have made gargantuan efforts in that environment on a daily—if not hourly—basis to sustain their conviction in the viability of their practices. After all, the near-total erasure of any remnant of conventional structures of subjectivity and the dissolution of even the last residual spatial forms of the public sphere could hardly reach a more decisive state.

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