Text panel from the series Fish Story

Allan Sekula · 1988-95

Before you is Text panel from the series Fish Story — a photograph by Allan Sekula, nineteen eighty-eight to nineteen ninety-five. It is among the darkest surfaces here: measured across the whole picture it gives back very little light.

Dimensions 40 1/16 × 28" (101.7 × 71.1 cm) · Credit Vital Projects Fund, Robert B. Menschel

Hanging beside it in Gallery 208: Shipyard-workers' housing--built during the Second World War--being moved from San Pedro to South-Central Los Angeles from the series Fish Story

More by Allan Sekula here: 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, Shipyard-workers' housing--built during the Second World War--being moved from San Pedro to South-Central Los Angeles from the series Fish Story