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- ISBN 9781804295045
- Weight: 475g
- Dimensions: 153 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 25 Nov 2025
- Publisher: Verso Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Onetime steelworker and Northern Soul dance champion, Steve Edwards is now Manton Professor of British Art and Director of the Manton Research Centre, the Courtauld Institute of Art. His publications have been translated into twelve languages and include: The Making of English Photography, Allegories; Photography: A Very Short Introduction; and Martha Rosler the Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems. He is an editorial member of Oxford Art Journal and the Historical Materialism Book Series, as well as a convenor for the research seminar Marxism in Culture.
