About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Photography and Media
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Artist
- Joel Sternfeld
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Title
- The Happy Land Social Club, 1959 Southern Boulevard, The Bronx, New York, from the series "On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam"
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- Made 1993
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Medium
- Chromogenic print
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Inscriptions
- Inscribed and signed recto, on mount, lower right, below image, in black ink: "The Happy Land Social Xlub, 1959 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, New York. (June 1993) / 1/7 Joel Sternfeld"; unmarked verso The Happy Land Social Club was a popular, unlicensed Honduran social club. On March 25, 1990, Julio Gonzalez was thrown out of the club for quarreling with Lydia Feliciano, his former girlfriend and a Happy Land employee. He bought a dollar’s worth of gasoline, poured a trail of gas from the street through the club’s single doorway, ignited it, and left. The fire killed eighty-seven people. Lydia Feliciano was one of five survivors. From the series, On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam
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Dimensions
- Image/paper: 47.2 × 59.9 cm (18 5/8 × 23 5/8 in.); Mount: 71.3 × 82.8 cm (28 1/8 × 32 5/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Acquired from the Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, through an Anonymous Gift
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Reference Number
- 1997.273
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