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
- Central Park Looking Toward the Plaza Hotel, 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 1994
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Medium
- Chromogenic print
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Inscriptions
- Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, on mount, along bottom edge, in black ink: JS.210.0 1/7 Central Park, looking toward the Plaza Hotel, New York, October 1994 N-October 1994 / P-September 1996 Joel Sternfeld In the December 1953 issue of Cancer Research, Dr. Ernst Wynder presented the first definitive proof that cigarette smoke causes cancer in laboratory animals. A few weeks later, the presidents of the major American tobacco companies met at the Plaza Hotel and agreed to begin an aggressive advertising campaign to counter Wynder’s findings. From the series, On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam
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Dimensions
- Image/paper: 47.6 × 59.4 cm (18 3/4 × 23 7/16 in.); Mount: 63.7 × 76.2 cm (25 1/8 × 30 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Jeanne and Richard S. Press
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Reference Number
- 1997.777.13
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