Room 2154, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C., from the series "On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam"

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Joel Sternfeld

Title

Room 2154, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C., from the series "On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam"

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1995

Medium

Chromogenic print

Edition

1 of 7

Inscriptions

Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, on mount, along bottom edge, in black ink: JS.216.0 1/7 Room 2154, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D. C., April 1995 N-April 1995 / P-September 1996 Joel Sternfeld At hearings held in this room in August 1983, the American Association of Blood Banks and the Food and Drug Administration rejected evidence that AIDS might be transmitted by blood transfusions. Before mandatory testing of donated blood was instituted in 1985, more than 8,000 hemophiliacs and over 12,000 other transfusion recipients were infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. From the series, On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam

Dimensions

Image/paper: 47.5 × 59.7 cm (18 3/4 × 23 9/16 in.); Mount: 63.5 × 76 cm (25 × 29 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Jeanne and Richard S. Press

Reference Number

1997.777.15

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