Welder's booth in bankrupt Todd Shipyard. Two years after closing. Los Angeles harbor. San Pedro, California from the series Fish Story

Allan Sekula · July 1991

Here we have Welder's booth in bankrupt Todd Shipyard. Two years after closing. Los Angeles harbor. San Pedro, California from the series Fish Story — a photograph by Sekula, July nineteen ninety-one. It is a silver dye bleach print, a colour process where the dyes are already in the paper and are bleached away to leave the picture, which is why the colour has not shifted.

Medium Silver dye bleach print · Dimensions 32 1/8 × 22 5/8 (81.6 × 57.5 cm) · Credit Vital Projects Fund, Robert B. Menschel

Hanging beside it in Gallery 208: Untitled (Flavin), The rechristened Exxon Valdez awaiting sea trials after repairs. National Steel and Shipbuilding Company. San Diego harbor 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, 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