Hammerhead crane unloading forty-foot containers from Asian ports. American President Lines terminal. Los Angeles harbor. San Pedro, California from the series Fish Story

Allan Sekula · November 1992

Before you is Hammerhead crane unloading forty-foot containers from Asian ports. American President Lines terminal. Los Angeles harbor. San Pedro, California from the series Fish Story — a photograph by Sekula, November nineteen ninety-two. Silver dye bleach print — about 61 by 78 centimeters. You can pick out the machine, and the bridge.

Medium Silver dye bleach print · Dimensions 24 1/8 × 30 5/8" (61.3 × 77.8 cm) · Credit Vital Projects Fund, Robert B. Menschel

Hanging beside it in Gallery 208: Pipe fitters finishing the engine room of a tuna-fishing boat. Campbell Shipyard. San Diego harbor from the series Fish Story, "Pancake," a former shipyard sandblaster, scavenging copper from a waterfront scrapyard. Los Angeles harbor. Terminal Island, California from the series Fish Story

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