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AdmittedAllan Sekula · February 1990
This one's called 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 3/4 × 23 5/16" (83.2 × 59.2 cm) · Credit Vital Projects Fund, Robert B. Menschel
Hanging beside it in Gallery 208: Display IX, Remnants of a movie set. Abandoned shipyard. Los Angeles harbor. Terminal Island, California from the series Fish Story
Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Los Angeles, California, In the Spring, Untitled from the series African Spirits
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
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Catalogue record: MoMA Collection Notes written for momap — not MoMA curatorial text.