Photographer and writer Allan Sekula constructs narratives that define land and its political, social, and economic demarcations. He has described Geography Lesson: Canadian Notes as a conjectural comparison of imaginary and material geographies in the advanced capitalist world. In the book, which is based on a 1986 exhibition, he examines the iconography found in images of a landscape altered by mining, of bank architecture and its messages of cultural stability, and of the land as a source of economic wealth as it appears on Canadian money.The seventy-six photographs form a narrative sequence augmented by captions and by the text, which is written in the subjective voice of a single investigator and storyteller. The photographs link two sites: the Inco mine and smelter in Sudbury and the Bank of Canada in Ottawa. The deep roots of their existence -- the creation and distribution of wealth -- are far more intimately connected than appearances would suggest. Canadian bills bear images of industry that draw resources from the land, contributing to the myth of national independence and self-determination. Issues of national identity and independence acquire a heightened poignancy in light of Sekula's underlying subject, the relationship between Canada's resource-based economy and U.S. capital.In essays following Sekula's text, Gary Dufour discusses Canadian Notes as an examination of social and economic discourses that shape perceptions of the land, and John O'Brian discusses the dynamics of a resource-based economy, relations between Canada and the United States, and photography's ability to regulate appearances and therefore to control reality.Distributed for the Vancouver Art Gallery

Geography Lesson: Canadian Notes

Arts & Photography

Sekula, Allan

O’Brian, John

Vancouver Art Gallery

Dufour, Gary

Photography & Video

Mit Pr

The Ocean after Nature examines the ocean as a site reflecting ecological, political and economic realities through the work of more than 20 artists and collectives, including Ursula Biemann, Drexciya, Renée Green, Peter Hutton, An-My Lê, The Otolith Group and Ulrike Ottinger.

The Ocean after Nature

Lippard, Lucy R.

Eshwun, Kodo

Alaina Claire Feldman

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Independent Curators International (ICI)

Good Condition in Acceptable Jacket; Softcover; 1984, Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design; Softcover book with the original dust jacket; Both jacket and covers have the same design/illustration; Dust jacket is shelf worn with multiple small handling creases; Some shelf wear to covers with small edge-creases;  slight warping along the top of text pages to page twenty - all in front text matter, otherwise text pages and all images in very good condition, slightly age-toned and unmarked except for name and date on front endpaper; Black & green jacket with title in green lettering; 259 pages; "Photography Against the Grain: Essays and Photo Works, 1973-1983 (The Nova Scotia series : source materials of the contemporary arts)," by Allan Sekula. Ships from San Francisco, CA.

Photography against the grain: Essays and photo works, 1973-1983 (The Nova Scotia series : source materials of the contemporary arts)

Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design

Over the past 30 years, Canadian artists Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge have developed a collaborative practice of working with organized labor to reveal the increasingly complex relationships between paid work and global, ethical and environmental concerns. This volume, with 112 color reproductions of Condé and Beveridge's major projects, is the first comprehensive examination of the pair's influential work. Their collaboration began in 1976 when--through their involvement with the New York collaborative Art &amp; Language and the nascent Conceptual art movement--they turned from solo production and formalist art-making to social engagement, which combines left-oriented discourses with the artists' formal and technical innovations, and which presaged the currently prevalent practice in which art-making is understood as an articulation of human conditions and a tool of community formation. This volume includes a chronology of their practice and essays by Jan Allen, D'Arcy Martin, Declan McGonagle, Allan Sekula, Dot Tuer and Bruce Barber and an extensive interview by Clive Robertson.

Condé and Beveridge: Class Works

Allen, Jan

Condé, Carole

Beveridge, Karl

Individual Artists

The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design

Achevé entre 1989 et 1995, Fish Story a permis à Allan Sekula de poursuivre tout au long de sa carrière un «réalisme critique» contemporain pour atteindre son articulation la plus complexe. Fish Story a reconstruit un modèle réaliste de représentation photographique, tout en prenant une position critique envers la photographie documentaire traditionnelle. Il a également marqué la première exploration soutenue de l’océan par Sekula en tant qu’espace clé de la mondialisation. Un problème clé dans Fish Story est le lien entre le transport de marchandises conteneurisées et l'internationalisation croissante de l'économie industrielle mondiale, avec ses effets sur l'espace social réel des ports. L'ambition de Fish Story réside à la fois dans son immense complexité et sa portée mondiale et dans son défi énergique au climat dominant de la théorie et de la pratique postmodernes de la fin des années 1980 et du début des années 1990. Fish Story occupe une place centrale dans un changement graduel, encore naissant au début des années 1990, d'une culture largement répandue de résignation et de cynisme à une culture d'engagement radical renouvelé dans le monde de l'art.

Fish Story

MACK BOOKS

Titanic'S Wake Anglais

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

POINT JOUR

Richter Verlag

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