The Stonewall Inn, 53 Christopher Street, New York, from the series "On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam"

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Joel Sternfeld

Title

The Stonewall Inn, 53 Christopher Street, New York, from the series "On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam"

Place

United States (Artist's nationality)

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Made 1994

Medium

Chromogenic print

Edition

1 of 7

Inscriptions

Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, on mount, along bottom edge, in black ink: JS.213.0 1/7 The Stonewall Inn, 53 Christopher Street, New York, February 1994 N-February 1994 / P-September 1996 Joel Sternfeld Patrons of this gay bar were arrested and beaten in a routine early morning police raid on June 28, 1969. In the nights that followed, hundreds of men and women demonstrated in the streets of Greenwich Village, despite the continued threat of police violence. These events came to be known as the Stonewall Rebellion. From the series, On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam

Dimensions

Image/paper: 47.4 × 59.7 cm (18 11/16 × 23 9/16 in.); Paper: 63.1 × 76.4 cm (24 7/8 × 30 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Jeanne and Richard S. Press

Reference Number

1998.844

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