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
- State Route 74, near Interstate 95, Lumberton, North Carolina, 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.225.0 1/7 State Route 74, Near Interstate 95, Lumberton, North carolina, June 1994 N-June 1994 / P-September 1996 Joel Sternfeld" On July 23, 1993, James Jordan, father of basketball superstar Michael Jordan, was driving home from the funeral of a friend when he pulled off the road onto this shoulder to take a nap. Ten days later, his body was found in a creek in South Carolina. Two teenagers were charged with first-degree murder and armed robbery. They were sentenced to life in prison. From the series, On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam
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Dimensions
- Image/paper: 47.4 × 59.2 cm (18 11/16 × 23 5/16 in.); Mount: 63 × 76.2 cm (24 13/16 × 30 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Jeanne and Richard S. Press
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Reference Number
- 1998.851
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