Joel Sternfeld

The National Civil Rights Museum, formerly the Lorraine Motel, 450 Mulberry Street, Memphis, Tennessee, August 1993
1993, printed 2002

A framed photograph depicting a vintage white car parked in front of a two-story motel with turquoise doors and railings. The motel has a retro aesthetic, with a life preserver hanging on the second-floor railing. A descriptive plaque is attached to the wall beside the framed photo.
A framed photograph depicting a vintage white car parked in front of a two-story motel with turquoise doors and railings. The motel has a retro aesthetic, with a life preserver hanging on the second-floor railing. A descriptive plaque is attached to the wall beside the framed photo.

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Date
1993, printed 2002

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Chromogenic print and text panel

Dimensions
Sheet: 18 15/16 × 23 3/8in. (48.1 × 59.4 cm) Mount (board): 28 × 32in. (71.1 × 81.3 cm) Frame: 28 3/8 × 33in. (72.1 × 83.8 cm)

Accession number
2002.100a-b

Series
On This Site

Edition
AP 1/3

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee

Rights and reproductions
© Joel Sternfeld, Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

API
artworks/16315

Joel Sternfeld
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