Amphibious Realities

An audacity at once political and aesthetic, Allan Sekula’s critical realist intervention–produced during the peak years of modernist consensus–emerges here in all its forceful untimeliness – Kristin Ross, author of The Politics and Poetics of Everyday life

Onetime steelworker and Northern Soul dance champion, Steve Edwards is now Professor of History & Theory of Photography at Birkbeck, University of London. His publications have been translated into twelve languages and include: The Making of English Photography, Allegories; Photography: A Very Short Introduction; and Martha Rosler the Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems. He is an editorial member of Oxford Art Journal and the Historical Materialism Book Series, as well as a convenor for the research seminar Marxism in Culture.

Gail Day’s Dialectical Passions: Negation and Postwar Art Theory was shortlisted for the Isaac & Tamara Deutscher Prize. She is Professor of Art History and Critical Theory at the University of Leeds. She co-convenes the Marxism in Culture research seminar. She collaborated on the research programme Aesthetic Form & Uneven Modernity with Centro de Estudos Desmanche e Formação de Sistemas Simbólicos at Universidade de São Paulo. Meeting Steve years later, she belonged to a rival faction at the same Black Country discos.