Allan Sekula

Jointly developed by M HKA and the KU Leuven, this long-term, interdisciplinary research project focuses on a specific, yet complex body of work; multifaceted and variably installable, unfinished and open-ended: Ship of Fools / The Dockers' Museum (2010-2013) by artist and theorist Allan Sekula (1951-2013). Informed by the research of the team members, the project continues to evolve in a succession of research outputs, such as this digital platform.

Allan Sekula. Collective Sisyphus

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Untitled (Changing Port Technology & Labor, nr. 20), 1959

Photography , 20.6 x 25.3 cm

ink, paper

1959 Calumet Harbor Longshoremen Wire Photo [as indicated on PayPal document], black-and-white photograph, 20.6 x 25.3 cm. Purchased by Allan Sekula through eBay on 25 July 2011.

On the backside of the photograph:

CALUMET HARBOR

MAY 15 1959

An honest day's pay for an honest day's work. Paymaster Andy Jambrik pays longshoremen, who turnd in chits at stevedoring company window.

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