On This Site

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“I went to Central Park to find the place behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art where Jennifer Levin had been killed. It was bewildering to find a scene so beautiful … to see the same sunlight pour down indifferently on the earth. As I showed the photograph of this site to friends, I realized that I was not alone in thinking of her when walking by the Met. It occurred to me that I held something within: a list of places that I cannot forget because of the tragedies that identify them, and I began to wonder if each of us has such a list. I set out to photograph sites that were marked during my lifetime. Yet, there was something else that drew me to this work. I think of it as the question of knowability. Experience has taught me again and again that you can never know what lies beneath a surface or behind a façade. Our sense of place, our understanding of photographs of the landscape is inevitably limited and fraught with misreading.”
Autor: Sternfeld, Joel
ISBN: 9783869304342
Verlag: Steidl Verlag
Auflage: 1
Sprache: Englisch
Seitenzahl: 112
Produktart: Gebunden
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.2012
Verlag: Steidl Verlag
Untertitel: Landscape in Memoriam
Schlagworte: Amerikanische Gesellschaft Eintauchen Fotobuch Fotografie Kriminalität Tatort Tatorte USA Verbechen