Boy looking at his mother. Staten Island Ferry. New York harbor from the series Fish Story

Allan Sekula · February 1990

You're looking at Boy looking at his mother. Staten Island Ferry. New York harbor from the series Fish Story — a photograph by Sekula, February nineteen ninety. It's silver dye bleach print, about 82 by 57 centimeters.

Medium Silver dye bleach print · Dimensions 32 1/8 × 22 5/8 (81.6 × 57.5 cm) · Credit Vital Projects Fund, Robert B. Menschel

Hanging beside it in Gallery 208: "Lead Fish." Variant of a conference room designed for the Chiat/Day advertising agency. Architect: Frank Gehry. Installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles from the series Fish Story, Workers cleaning up chemical spill after refinery explosion. Los Angeles harbor. Wilmington, California from the series Fish Story

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale (Deux Enfants sont menacés par un rossignol), Bookcase doors for the Dana House, Springfield, IL, Reggio School, Madrid, Spain

More by Allan Sekula here: Text panel from the series Fish Story, Text panel from the series Fish Story, Text panel from the series Fish Story, Welder's booth in bankrupt Todd Shipyard. Two years after closing. Los Angeles harbor. San Pedro, California from the series Fish Story, Boy looking at his mother. Staten Island Ferry. New York harbor from the series Fish Story, Shipyard-workers' housing--built during the Second World War--being moved from San Pedro to South-Central Los Angeles from the series Fish Story