Fish StoryAmerican artist and writer Allan Sekula spent seven years photographing harbors and port cities around the world. Starting out in Los Angeles and San Diego, he traveled as far as Korea, Scotland, and Poland, photographing the prosperity, poverty, and political powers that continue to play out in major port cities across the world. The result was Fish Story, a seven-chapter illustrated tomb with more than 900 color photographs, that questions what remains of our port cities in the wake of a globalized economy. |
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aesthetic AIN'T AIN'T Alfred Stieglitz Allan Sekula American Photographs Angeles harbor Antlitz der Zeit artistic August Sander battleship become boat bourgeois C.L.R. James California cargo Carlsen century container containerization contemporary Crane crew culture deck Dialectics Dismal Science Dutch Eisenstein Engels engine exhibition factory film Fish Story fleet Foucault Friedrich Engels Gdańsk German global Hart Crane Herman Melville historical Hyundai shipyard Ibid industrial Kim Kyung-Seok Kirstein Korean Kronstadt labor Lincoln Kirstein London machine maritime space Melville's metaphoric Mexico Michel Foucault modern modernist montage movement Museum mutiny narrative naval Nemo's novel ocean painting panorama picture political pop art port Potemkin Press production proletarian Proust Reagan realism representation Revolution revolutionary river Rotterdam sail sailor Sea-Land Quality seafaring seascape ship social South spatial Stan Weir steam Steerage Stieglitz submarine tion trans Trotsky Ulsan unemployed University Veracruz Vietnam Vigo Walker Evans waterfront workers York