Pipe fitters finishing the engine room of a tuna-fishing boat. Campbell Shipyard. San Diego harbor from the series Fish Story

Allan Sekula · August 1991

This is Pipe fitters finishing the engine room of a tuna-fishing boat. Campbell Shipyard. San Diego harbor from the series Fish Story — a photograph by Sekula, August nineteen ninety-one. It's silver dye bleach print, about 61 by 78 centimeters.

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: Welder's booth in bankrupt Todd Shipyard. Two years after closing. Los Angeles harbor. San Pedro, California from the series Fish Story, Hammerhead crane unloading forty-foot containers from Asian ports. American President Lines terminal. Los Angeles harbor. San Pedro, California from the series Fish Story

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Match-seller, Police Officer, Workman. Costume design for the ballet H.P. (Horsepower), New York, New York, Beginning to Loom Larger and Larger on the Horizon

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