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
- Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Alternate Highway 14, twelve miles north of Cody, Wyoming
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Origin
- United States
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Date
- Made 1994
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Medium
- Chromogenic print, from the series "On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam," edition 1 of 7
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Inscriptions
- Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, on mount, along bottom edge, in black ink: "JS.209.0 Joel Sternfeld 1/7 Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Alternate Highway 14, twelve miles north of Cody, Wyoming, August 1994 N-August 1994 / P-September 1996" One hundred ten thousand Japanese Americans were imprisoned in twenty-four internment camps located in remote areas of the American West during the Second World War. At the time of the February 19, 1942, Executive Order initiating the forced relocation, there had not been a single act of disloyalty by a Japanese American. In 1988, Congress awarded surviving internees or their descendants $20,000 and an apology as retribution for the violation of their constitutional rights. From the series, On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam
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Dimensions
- 47.6 × 59.9 cm (image/paper); 63.5 × 76.2 cm (mount)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Jeanne and Richard S. Press
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Reference Number
- 1997.777.6
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