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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Allan Sekula"”.
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Visualising Creative Destruction: A Photographic Study of Urban Change in Salford, UK
… taking critical inspiration from Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula and Bertolt Brecht, I produce a series of visual studies into the processual, material and spatial characteristics of this unique form of transformational urban change. Creative destruction, almost invariably addressed directly in text …
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Encounters & Spatial Controversies
… relevant, among them Gordon Matta-Clark, Allan Sekula and Francis Alÿs. Uncaptioned images will run throughout the thesis, in parallel with the text. Overall, I will argue for the value of a type of ‘site-oriented’ practice that probes and investigates spatial dynamics and power relations …
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<i>Relative Poverty</i>: Documentary photography, public engagement and making change
… rethinking of concerns first highlighted by Allan Sekula and Martha Rosler in the late 1970s and early 1980s. These concerns can be summarised as the usefulness of the public exhibition of social documentary artworks when aiming to affect public opinion. If we want our photography to change …
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Contemporary art and the search for history—the emergence of the artist-historian
… of economic inequality and globalization (Allan Sekula, the United States); in chapter two, the racial memory and remnants of colonialism (Santu Mofokeng, South Africa); and in chapter three, the trauma of civil war and subsequent conflicts (Akram Zaatari, Lebanon and Chan-kyong Park, South …
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Interpretations of the Politics of Fictive Landscapes in Context: A Comparison of Allan Sekula's Sketch on a Geography Lesson and Martha Rosler's In the Place of the Public Airport Series
… Fictive Landscapes in Context: A Comparison of Allan Sekula's Sketch on a Geography Lesson and Martha Rosler's In the Place of the Public Airport Series Throughout this thesis project I examine the geopolitical context(s) of the photographs featured in Martha Rosler's 'In the Place of the Public …