ANNA VON MERTENS: As the Stars Go By
August 05 - September 02 2006
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco (395 Valencia Street)

6:01 pm until 7:05 pm, April 4, 1968, from the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee (looking in the direction the shots were fired) , 2006
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8 am, when the air raid alert was lifted, until 8:15 am, when the bomb was dropped, August 6, 1945, Hiroshima, Japan (looking in the direction of Tinian airbase in the West Pacific), 2006
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2:45 am until sunrise on Tet, the Lunar New Year, January 31, 1968, US Embassy, Saigon, Vietnam (looking north), 2006
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5:34 am until sunrise, March 20, 2003, Baghdad, Iraq (from the Palestine Hotel looking toward the Presidential Palace on the Tigris River), 2006
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41 x 97.5




December 29, 1890, Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota, the Seven Stars of the Big Dipper in the final hour before dawn, 2006
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Sunrise to Sunset, September 17, 1862, Antietam Creek, Maryland (from the North Looking South), 2006
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Midnight until the first sighting of land, October 12, 1492, six miles off the coast of current day San Salvador Island, Bahamas , 2006
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41 x 97.5