Art isn't fair
Subtitle: further essays on the traffic in photographs and related media
By: Allan Sekula ; edited by Sally Stein and Ina Steiner
Contributors: Stein, Sally, editor; Steiner, Ina, editor
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Mack
Published: 2020
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9781912339846
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Artistic Photography; Art fairs; Art and society; Photographie artistique; Foires d'art; Art et société; Art photography
Other titles: Art is not fair
Description: Art Isn't Fair is the title of the last video completed in 2012 by Allan Sekula (1951-2013), a work commenting on the rise of art fairs as yet another international gathering of moneyed elites. This new compilation of textual, photographic and filmic essays underscores Sekula's longstanding engagement with the many intersections between art, photography, and the shifting terrain of power struggles from both a local and international perspective. Bringing together an ensemble of works that Sekula never had the chance to publish together before his death in 2013, this new collection expands our sense of the persistent depth and breadth of Sekula's concerns and commitments. The volume includes the widely-cited extended Sekula essay, The Body and the Archive (1986), less well-known but equally comprehensive historical critiques such as Photography between Labour and Capital (1983), the artist's reconsideration of his own early work, plus numerous essays on other artists and photographers from Walker Evans to Robert Mapplethorpe, Susan Meiselas, James Benning and the contemporary Canadian masters of political montage, Carole Condé & Karl Beveridge. The volume concludes with the narrative transcript along with select stills from 'Art Isn't Fair'.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Editorial foreword / Sally Stein and Ina Steiner; title: A short autobiography (1971); title: Photography between labour and capital (1983); title: Geography lesson: Canadian notes (1986); title: The body and the archive (1986); title: 'Gay-bashing' as an art form: the Mapplethorpe affair reveals a linkage of quirky conservative impulses in art, economics and politics (1989); title: Walker Evans and the police (1992); title: Foreword to Manhole covers by Mimi Melnick with photographs by Robert A. Melnick (1994); title: An eternal esthetics of laborious gestures (1996); title: Michael Asher - down to Earth (1999); title: Waiting for tear gas [white globe to black] (1999-2000); title: Waiting for Los Angeles, in Anthony Hernandez, Waiting for Los Angeles (2002); title: Between the Net and the deep blue sea [Rethinking the traffic in photographs] (2002); title: Black tide: fragments for an opera (2002/2003); title: From the stock room to the hospitality suite: notes on the work of Annetta Kapon (2004); title: A portable national archive for a stateless people: Susan Meiselas and the Kurds/Photography and the limits of national identity (1993/2006); title: The lottery of the sea (film transcription with selected stills) (2006); title: Eleven premises on documentary and a question (2006); title: RR JB in James Benning (2007); title: ...The Red Guards come and go, talking of Michelangelo, in Condé and Beveridge: class works (2008); title: Translations and completions: Untitled slide sequence, 1972 ; California stories, 1973-1975 (2011-2012); title: Art isn't fair (film transcription with selected stills).