Allan Sekula

Sekula was born in 1951 in Erie, Pennsylvania, of Polish and English descent. His family moved to San Pedro, California in the early 1960s. He served on the faculty of the Photography and Media Program at the California Institute of the Arts. Sekula died on August 10, 2013, aged 62, following a long struggle with gastric-esophageal cancer. ==Books==

• Photography Against the Grain: Essays and Photo Works 1973–1983 (1984). • Fish Story (1995). • London: Mack, 2018. . With a new introduction by Laleh Khalili. • Dead Letter Office (1997). • Geography Lesson: Canadian Notes (1997). • Seemannsgarn (2002). • ''Titanic's Wake'' (2003). • Performance under Working Conditions (2003). • A Dialogue with Allan Sekula (2005). • Facing the Music: Documenting Walt Disney Hall and the Redevelopment of Downtown Los Angeles. East of Borneo Books, 2015. . A project by Sekula. Edited by Edward Dimendberg, with contributions by Sekula, Louis Adamic, James Baker, Laura Diamond Dixit, Anthony Hernandez, Karin Apollonia Müller, Leonard Nadel, and Billy Woodberry. == Films ==

• A Short Film for Laos (2006) • The Forgotten Space (2010) ==Awards==

• 1977: Art Critic's Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts • 1999 - 2002: Research Grant, Getty Research Institute / J. Paul Getty Trust • 2007: USA Broad Fellow and granted $50,000 by United States Artists • Fellowship from the Deutsche Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) • Fellowship from the Atelier Calder ==Exhibitions==

Sekula's work is held in the following public collections: • Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Vienna, Austria • Museo de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain • Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain • Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands • Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA • National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece • Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio • Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA • Pompidou Center, Paris • San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA • San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA • Whitney Museum, New York • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia • ARCO Foundation, Madrid, Spain • Centro de Estudos Fotograficos, Vigo, Spain • Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany • Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris • Getty Research Institute, Resource Collections, Los Angeles, CA • Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA • Museé des Beaux Arts et de la Dentelle, Calais, France • Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Castilla y León, Spain == See also ==