PHOTOGRAPHS
Sekula, Allan
U.S. (1951 - 2013)
Study for Dear Bill Gates, 1999
1999
Silver-dye bleach (Cibachrome) print
4 x 6 1/8 in. (10.2 x 15.6 cm) left image size; 4 x 5 3/4 in. (10.1 x 14.6 cm) right image size; 16 x 20 in. (40.7 x 50.8 cm) sheet size
Henry Art Gallery Commission, 2000
FA 2001.11.1
Keywords: Landscape; Recreation (swimming); Transportation (boat)

Allan Sekula employs both the panorama and the detail in this pointedly political study, touching on the art historical imaging of the maritime, the circulation and collection of these images, and obliquely, their relation to globalized trade relations. The date of Sekula’s letter to Gates is that of the “battle in Seattle,” during the World Trade Organiza-tion’s 1999 meeting. The large-scale Dear Bill Gates, 28 x 103 inches, is in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. -- Label copy for High Tide: Imaging Maritime Space, February 27 to May 11, 2003.
Copyright credit: Courtesy of Christopher Grimes Gallery