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
- Eagle Art Works Foundry, 6700 Southwest Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri, 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 center, along bottom edge, below image, in black ink: "Eagle Art Works Foundary, 6700 Southwest Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri (August 1993) / 1/7 Joel Sternfeld"; unmarked verso Christopher Harris was shot to death on the night of June 7, 1991, when he was used as a human shield in a gun battle between rival drug dealers in St. Louis. Christopher was nine years old. Clarence Harmon, the Chief of Police of St. Louis, started a program to buy back guns from the community in order to build a memorial to Harris. Over seven thousand guns were purchased, melted down, and cast into this statue, sculpted by Rudolph Torrinni. From the series, On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam
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Dimensions
- Image/paper: 59.7 × 47.1 cm (23 9/16 × 18 9/16 in.); Mount: 82.4 × 70.7 cm (32 1/2 × 27 7/8 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
- 1997.268
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