Editors' Introduction: Allan Sekula and the Traffic in Photographs

Marie Muracciole is an art critic, curator, and Director of the Beirut Art Center. Her recent exhibitions include Mécaniques des Fluides (2013), Allan Sekula: Disassembled Movies, 1972–2012 (2012), and Yto Barrada: Riffs (2011). In addition to numerous exhibition catalogues, she also contributes to Texte zur Kunst and Les cahiers du Musée d'art moderne. She is the editor and translator of Allan Sekula, Écrits sur la photographie 1974–1986 (Beaux-Arts de Paris, 2013) and is preparing a retrospective exhibition of his work.

Benjamin J. Young is completing a dissertation on the photo-works of Allan Sekula in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. He teaches at The New School and is managing editor of Grey Room.