Artworks · Allan Sekula

The Forgotten Space

2010 · Digital cinema (color, sound)

112 min.

Museum of Modern Art

Shipwreck and Workers from the Museum in Progress project Worlds of Work

2005 · 19 lithographs, printed in color

sheet (each): 18 1/2 x 12 3/8" (47 x 31.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Waiting for Tear Gas (white globe to black)

1999 · Eighty 35mm color slides

Dimensions variable. Continuous projection. 12:15 min.

Museum of Modern Art

Dead Letter Office - Fábrica de Caixões, Tijuana

1996 · Silver dye bleach print

Museum of Modern Art

Seventy in Seven (from Fish Story: Chapter 4)

1993 · 23 dye-destruction prints and 4 gelatin silver prints

13 framed prints; each: 61.6 × 78.2 × 4.5 cm (24 1/4 × 30 3/4 × 1 3/4 in.); 5 framed diptychs; each: 61.6 × 142.9 × 4.5 cm (24 1/4 × 56 1/4 × 1 3/4 in.); 4 text panels; each: 101.6 × 71.2 × 3.2 cm (40 × 28 × 1 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Inclinometer, Mid Atlantic & Panorama, mid Atlantic from the series Fish Story

1993 · Silver dye bleach prints (diptych)

26 × 62 3/4" (66 × 159.4 cm) and 33 1/2 × 62 3/4" (85.1 × 159.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Remnants of a movie set. Abandoned shipyard. Los Angeles harbor. Terminal Island, California from the series Fish Story

1993 · Silver dye bleach print

32 1/8 × 22 5/8 (81.6 × 57.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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

1992 · Silver dye bleach print

24 1/8 × 30 5/8 (61.3 × 77.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

"Pancake," a former shipyard sandblaster, scavenging copper from a waterfront scrapyard. Los Angeles harbor. Terminal Island, California from the series Fish Story

1992 · Silver dye bleach print

Approx 24 1/8 × 30 5/8 × 1 3/4" (61.3 × 77.8 × 4.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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

1992 · Silver dye bleach print

24 1/8 × 30 5/8" (61.3 × 77.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Hammerhead crane unloading forty-foot containers from Asian ports. American President Lines terminal. Los Angeles harbor. San Pedro, California from the series Fish Story

1992 · Silver dye bleach print

24 1/8 × 30 5/8" (61.3 × 77.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Koreatown, Los Angeles from the series Fish Story

1992 · Silver dye bleach print

32 1/8 × 22 5/8 (81.6 × 57.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Workers cleaning up chemical spill after refinery explosion. Los Angeles harbor. Wilmington, California from the series Fish Story

1992 · Silver dye bleach print

32 1/8 × 22 5/8 (81.6 × 57.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Remnants of a Roman harbor near Minturno, Italy from the series Fish Story

1992 · Silver dye bleach print

24 1/8 × 30 5/8" (61.3 × 77.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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

1991 · Silver dye bleach print

32 1/8 × 22 5/8 (81.6 × 57.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Pipe fitters finishing the engine room of a tuna-fishing boat. Campbell Shipyard. San Diego harbor from the series Fish Story

1991 · Silver dye bleach print

24 1/8 × 30 5/8 (61.3 × 77.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Pipe fitters finishing the engine room of a tuna-fishing boat. Campbell Shipyard. San Diego harbor from the series Fish Story

1991 · Silver dye bleach print

32 1/8 × 22 5/8 (81.6 × 57.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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

1991 · Silver dye bleach print

32 1/8 × 22 5/8 (81.6 × 57.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Fish Story: Walking on Water (Chapter 9)

1990 · Eighty 35mm color slides

Dimensions variable. Continous projection.

Museum of Modern Art

The rechristened Exxon Valdez awaiting sea trials after repairs. National Steel and Shipbuilding Company. San Diego harbor from the series Fish Story

1990 · Silver dye bleach print

24 1/8 × 30 5/8 (61.3 × 77.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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

1990 · Silver dye bleach print

24 1/8 × 30 5/8" (61.3 × 77.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Boy looking at his mother. Staten Island Ferry. New York harbor from the series Fish Story

1990 · Silver dye bleach print

32 3/4 × 23 5/16" (83.2 × 59.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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

1990 · Silver dye bleach print

32 1/8 × 22 5/8 (81.6 × 57.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Boy looking at his mother. Staten Island Ferry. New York harbor from the series Fish Story

1990 · Silver dye bleach print

32 1/8 × 22 5/8 (81.6 × 57.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Text panel from the series Fish Story

1988

40 1/16 × 28" (101.7 × 71.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

"Lead Fish." Variant of a conference room designed for the Chiat/Day advertising agency. Architect: Frank Gehry. Installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles from the series Fish Story

1988 · Silver dye bleach print

26 1/4 × 29 3/8 (66.7 × 74.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Chapter One, Fish Story from the series Fish Story

1988 · Silver dye bleach prints and text panels

Each approx. 32 1/8 × 22 5/8" (81.6 × 57.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Text panel from the series Fish Story

1988

40 1/16 × 28" (101.7 × 71.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Text panel from the series Fish Story

1988

40 1/16 × 28" (101.7 × 71.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled Slide Sequence

1972 · Inkjet prints, printed 2011

75 5/8 × 107 1/4" (192.1 × 272.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art