Selected works from the exhibition: Selected works from the exhibition

Selected works from the exhibition

Allan Sekula (American, 1951–2013). Boy Looking at His Mother. Staten Island Ferry. New York Harbor* from the series Fish Story, Chapter One. February 1990*

Sekula's multi-part photographic work Fish Story underscores photography’s role in labor history, especially in the global age. The project has seven chapters, incorporating 105 color photographs, twenty-six text panels, and two slide projections.

Chapter One, on view here, documents the central role of the sea in the modern global economy, bringing together images from the world’s port cities. The photographs constitute a unique record of unemployment and dilapidation in the old industrial powers, the capitalist pursuit of cheap labor around the globe, and the strenuous work of seafaring.

Allan Sekula (American, 1951–2013). Boy Looking at His Mother. Staten Island Ferry. New York Harbor from the series Fish Story, Chapter One. February 1990

Allan Sekula (American, 1951–2013). Boy Looking at His Mother. Staten Island Ferry. New York Harbor* from the series Fish Story, Chapter One. February 1990*