SEKULA, Allan
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.

This new edition of the long out-of-print seminal publication includes a new introduction by Professor Laleh Khalili. [publisher's note]

Published by MACK, 2018
Artists' Books / Facsimile & Reprints / Photography