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Shipyard-workers' housing--built during the Second World War--being moved from San Pedro to South-Central Los Angeles from the series Fish Story

Allan Sekula · May 1990

Before you is Shipyard-workers' housing--built during the Second World War--being moved from San Pedro to South-Central Los Angeles from the series Fish Story — a photograph by Sekula, May nineteen ninety. 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: Text panel from the series Fish Story, Untitled (Flavin)

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Willows, House by the Railroad, Bucks County Barn, Walking House, The Shape of Things

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