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 Detroit River at General MacArthur Bridge, Detroit, Michigan
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Origin
- United States
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Date
- Made 1996
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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 retco; inscribed verso, on mount, along bottom edge, in black ink: "JS.231.0 1/7 The Detroit River at General MacArthur Bridge, Detroit, Michigan, January 1996 N-January 1996 / P-September 1996 Joel Sternfeld" On August 19, 1995, Deletha Word and Martell Welch had a minor traffic accident. Welch chased Word, pulled her from her car, and beat her for nearly half an hour. More than forty people, some of whom had cellular phones, watched as Welch struck her repeatedly with a tire iron, but no one called the police. Word leapt from this bridge to escape her attacker. Two men jumped in the river to save her, but Word feared they would harm her as well and kept swimming; she eventually drowned. Martell Welch has been charged with murder. From the series, On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam
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Dimensions
- 47.2 × 59.5 cm (image/paper); 63.6 × 76.4 cm (mount)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Jeanne and Richard S. Press
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Reference Number
- 1997.777.10
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