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ON THIS SITE - JOEL STERNFELD LEINEN

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. Joel Sternfeld Between 1993 and 1996  Joel Sternfeld photographed 50
infamous crime sites around the US. On This Site  contains images of these unsettlingly normal
places  ordinary landscapes left behind after tragedies  their hidden stories disturbingly
invisible. Each photograph is accompanied by a text describing the crime that took place at the
location. This is the first Steidl edition of On This Site  originally published in 1996 to
great acclaim. A major figure in the photography world  Joel Sternfeld was born in New York
City in 1944. He has received numerous awards including two Guggenheim fellowships  a Prix de
Rome and the Citibank Photography Award. Sternfeld's books published by Steidl include American
Prospects (2003)  Sweet Earth (2006)  Oxbow Archive (2008) and First Pictures (2011).

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