Allan Sekula, Against the Grain

By Fred Lonidier ALLAN SEKULA, “photographer ,film-maker, cultural theorist and political activist (and) one of the outrstanding Marxist intellectuals of his generation,” died August 10, 2013 in Los Angeles after a long battle with cancer. (See Steve Edwards, “Socialism and the Sea,” www.radicalphilosophy.com/obituary/socialism-and-the-sea) He was known among other things for his studies of the sea, which fascinated him from his years growing up in the port city of San Pedro,…

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