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
- Aisle 2, Row 3, Seat 5, Texas Theatre, 231 West Jefferson Boulevard, Dallas, Texas, 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 right, below image, in black ink: "Aisle 2, Row 3, Seat 5, Texas Theater, 231 West Jefferson Street, Dallas Texas. / (November 1993) / 1/7 Joel Sternfeld"; unmarked verso Lee Harvey Oswald was sitting in this seat when he was arrested by Dallas police at 1:50 P.M., November 22, 1963. The double feature playing that day was Cry of Battle and War Is Hell. From the series, On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam
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Dimensions
- Image/paper: 47.2 × 59.4 cm (18 5/8 × 23 7/16 in.); Mount: 71.3 × 82.8 cm (28 1/8 × 32 5/8 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
- 1997.269
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