To: Retort From: AS Allan Sekula lecture/talk at San Francisco Art Institute, October 19th Monday, October 19, 2009 — 7:30pm @ SFAI Allan Sekula A photographer, writer, and critic, Allan Sekula devises many-leveled critiques of what he calls the imaginary and material geographies of the advanced capitalist world. An exponent of a critical realism that examines the economic, political, social, and cultural changes of globalization, he constructs work out of concrete life situations. Books by or on him include Photography against the Grain: Essays and Photo Work, 1973–1983; Geography Lesson: Canadian Notes; and Dismal Science: Photoworks, 1972–1996. He has had solo exhibitions at such venues as Museum Folkwang in Essen (Germany), the Berkeley Art Museum, Witte de With in Rotterdam (The Netherlands), Moderna Museet in Stockholm (Sweden), Kunstverein München in Munich (Germany), the Centre for Fine Arts (“Bozar”) in Brussels (Belgium), and the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Getty Research Institute, DAAD, and Atelier Calder. Sekula is on the faculty of the Photography and Media program at the California Institute of the Arts. |