Found Paintings, Disassembled Movies, World Images

Allan Sekula (1951–2013) was an artist, photographer, historian, critic, and filmmaker. His many books include Photography against the Grain: Essays and Photo Works 1973–1983 (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1984), Fish Story (Witte de With/Richter Verlag, 1995), Geography Lesson: Canadian Notes (MIT Press, 1997), Dismal Science: Photo Works 1972–1996 (Illinois State University, 1999), Performance under Working Conditions (Generali Foundation/Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2003), TITANIC's wake (Le Point du Jour Éditeurs, 2003), and Polonia and Other Fables (The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago/Zachęta National Gallery of Art, 2009). His film The Forgotten Space (2010), codirected with Noël Burch, won the Orizzonte Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. He taught in the Program in Photography and Media at the California Institute of the Arts since 1985.

Carles Guerra is an artist, critic, and independent curator based in Barcelona. He is Associate Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and has held positions as Director of La Virreina Centre de la Imatge and Chief Curator at Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA). He curated Antiphotojournalism with Thomas Keenan (2010), 1979: A Monument to Radical Instants (2011), and Ahlam Shibli: Phantom Home (2013). He directed the film N for Negri (2000) and is author of Allan Sekula Speaks with Carles Guerra (La Fábrica/Fundación Telefónica, 2005).