Central Park, North of the Obelisk, Behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from the series "On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam"

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Joel Sternfeld

Title

Central Park, North of the Obelisk, Behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 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: "Central Park (North of the obelisk behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art,) New York City. / (May 1993) / 1/7 Joel Sternfeld"; unmarked verso Jennifer Levin and Robert Chambers were seen leaving Dorrian’s Red Hand, an Upper East Side bar, at 4:30 A.M. on August 26, 1986. Her body was found beneath this crab apple tree in Central Park at 6:15 A.M. that same morning. An autopsy revealed that she had been strangled. She was eighteen years old when she died. Chambers, who was nineteen at the time of the crime, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter. From the series, On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam

Dimensions

Image/paper: 47.2 × 59.5 cm (18 5/8 × 23 7/16 in.); Mount: 71.4 × 82.6 cm (28 1/8 × 32 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

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

Reference Number

1997.272

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