Testing robot-truck designed to move containers within automated ECT/Sea-Land cargo terminal. Maasvlakte, Port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands from the series Fish Story

Allan Sekula · September 1992

This is Testing robot-truck designed to move containers within automated ECT/Sea-Land cargo terminal. Maasvlakte, Port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands from the series Fish Story — a photograph by Sekula, September nineteen ninety-two. The piece is silver dye bleach print, about 61 by 78 centimeters. Somewhere in there: the train, and the lettering.

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: Abandoned shipyard used by Marine Corps Expeditionary Force for "counter-terrorist" exercises. Los Angeles harbor. Terminal Island, California from the series Fish Story, Text panel from the series Fish Story

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