By Allan Sekula
Normal, IL: University Galleries of Illinois State University, 1999
Pages: 272
Dimensions: 11 in x 8.4 in
Cover: soft
Binding: perfect-bound
Process: offset
Color: full color throughout
Edition Size: unknown
ISBN: 978-0945558279

Allan Sekula is a longtime favorite of Temporary Services and we were thrilled to be able to get some copies of this out of print book to sell from our friends at University Galleries of Illinois State University. Sekula's books have gotten outrageously expensive since his death. This heavily illustrated and great looking book is no exception, but we're selling it for just a hair above retail and hope that carrying it will expose yet more people to his important work. A description from the publisher:

Dismal Science is the definitive edition of seven acclaimed photographic projects made by Allan Sekula over the last 24 years, and also includes a number of critical essays by Sekula on contemporary photography, His hybrid works, incorporating photographic sequences, slide projections, texts, and audio recordings, question the conventions of documentary photography, while tracing strange linkages between everyday life and the global economic system. Dismal Science is published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the University Galleries of Illinois State University that travelled to eight venues between 1996-1998 including the Netherlands foto institute, Rotterdam, the Munich Kunstverein, and the John Curtin Gallery, Perth, Australia