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10311 East Brookside Drive, Central, Louisiana, from the series "On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam"

A work made of chromogenic print.

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  • A work made of chromogenic print.

Date:

November 1993

Artist:

Joel Sternfeld
American, born 1944

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Joel Sternfeld

Title

10311 East Brookside Drive, Central, Louisiana, from the series "On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam"

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1993

Medium

Chromogenic print

Edition

1 of 7

Inscriptions

Inscribed and signed recto, on mount, lower right, below image, in black ink: 10311 East Brookside, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (November 1993) 1/7 Joel Sternfeld ; unmarked verso Yoshihiro Hattori, a sixteen-year-old Japanese exchange student, was on his way to a Halloween party when he was shot and killed in this carport at 8:30 P.M. on October 17, 1992. Confused about the address of the party and attracted by Halloween decorations, Hattori and his American host student knocked on the front door. Bonnie Peairs, startled by two boys in costume, called for her husband to get his gun. When Rodney Peairs opened the carport door, Hattori, thinking he had found the party, ran towards him. Frightened, Peairs ordered him to freeze. Hattori barely understood English and did not stop. He was shot and killed. Peairs was acquitted of manslaughter under a Louisiana law that allows citizens to use deadly force when protecting themselves or their homes from intruders. From the series, On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam

Dimensions

Image/paper: 47.5 × 59.8 cm (18 3/4 × 23 9/16 in.); Mount: 71.2 × 82.6 cm (28 1/16 × 32 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Acquired from the Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, through an Anonymous Gift

Reference Number

1997.275

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