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Hart Island

by HUNT, MELINDA & STERNFELD, JOEL

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Scalo 1998. Oblong quarto, beige heavy boards, black lettering to spine, 119pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing)
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Hart Island: Discovery of an Unknown Territory.

Hart Island: Discovery of an Unknown Territory.

by Sternfeld, Joel - Hunt, Melinda

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Zürich, Scalo, 1998. Quer-4°,119 S., zahlr. farb. Abb.§, Broschur, Tadell. Hart Island, manchmal auch als Hart’s Island bezeichnet, ist eine kleine, zu New York City gehörende Insel am westlichen Ende des Long Island Sounds. Ihre Fläche beträgt 0,531 km . Sie ist ungefähr 1,5 km lang und 400 m breit und liegt nördlich von City Island in der Gruppe der Pelham-Inseln. Die Insel ist der östlichste Teil des Stadtbezirks Bronx, auf ihr befindet sich ein Armenfriedhof. Die Insel darf von der Öffentlichkeit nicht regulär betreten werden. Auf Hart Island befindet sich ein etwa 18 Hektar großer Armenfriedhof (Potter’s Field), einer der bekanntesten seiner Art in den USA und der größte weltweit. Der Friedhof wurde im Jahr 1868 gegründet. Auf dem Gelände sind mehr als eine Million Tote bestattet. Etwa 25 pro Woche und 1500 pro Jahr kommen hinzu, viele von ihnen Säuglinge, Totgeborene oder Obdachlose. 010
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Hart Island [SIGNED]

by Hunt, Melinda; Joel Sternfeld

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Zurich-Berlin-New York: Scalo, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Signed Joel Sternfeld September 15, 2005" on half-title. Oblong Quarto. 117 (1)pp. Original tan cloth with black lettering on cover, in original photo-illustrated dustjacket, white lettering on spine. Tan endpapers. "Since its purchase in 1869, three quarters of a million people have been buried on Hart Island making it the most dense cemetery in America. This public burial ground is difficult to visit because it is administered by the prison authorities. Inmates serving short-term sentences are bused in from nearby Riker's Island to perform the daily burials... The Hart Island Project is about revisiting these fragments in photographs, stories, documents, installations and public art. It parallels the experiences of many people in search of their beginnings in America. The project began seven years ago at the confluence of three major events in my life: naturalization, the death of my mother, and the birth of my second child.… Read More
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