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"Readers who want to know more about Allan Sekula's works will no doubt appreciate this collection of essays devoted to them. Ciel Variable n°101 Hilde van Gelder, in her essay ""Labor of Giants"", gives the most detailed account of where the project is at the moment. Having been in contact with the artist until shortly before his death, she provides much additional material and sketches the most important thematic clusters of the collection beyond the obvious topics of dock labour and seafaring. Together with Sally Stein's amazing narrative of her coming to grips with Sekula's collection, at last almost inclined to share his firm belief that these seemingly heterogeneous objects are all connected, we thus get an excellent image of the transition of this seminal project from one state of being to another. ""There is a metaphor of The Dockers' Museum,"" Sekula is quoted in the introductory motto, ""which is 'that which is fluid, that which is moving, comes to rest. ""' Wilfried Prantner, Camera Austria 131, 2015"

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Hilde Van Gelder is professor of modern and contemporary art history at the KU Leuven and co-director of the Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography, Art and Visual Culture.

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