About this artwork
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Status
- On View, Gallery 2
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Department
- Photography and Media
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Artist
- Joel Sternfeld
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Title
- The Northwest Corner of Florence and Normandie Avenues, Los Angeles, California, 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 norwest [sic] corner of Florence Avenue and Normandie Avenue, Los Angeles, California. / (October 1993) / 1/7 Joel Sternfeld" On April 29, 1992, four white police officers on trial for the beating of motorist Rodney King were acquitted. A videotape of King’s beating had been extensively televised. The not guilty verdicts became a catalyst for widespread civil unrest. Riots began with several mob assaults at this intersection. Reginald Denny, a white truck driver, was pulled from his truck and severely beaten as a camera crew broadcast the event live from a news helicopter. The Los Angeles Riots caused more than fifty deaths and an estimated one billion dollars worth of damage. From the series, On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam
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Dimensions
- Image/paper: 47.7 × 60.2 cm (18 13/16 × 23 3/4 in.); Mount: 71.3 × 82.7 cm (28 1/8 × 32 9/16 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
- 1997.282
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