This large-format chromogenic print by Joel Sternfeld documents the exterior of the National Civil Rights Museum, built around the preserved site of the Lorraine Motel where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968. Sternfeld's characteristically composed and luminous color photography captures the tension between the building's historical weight and its transformation into a public institution, with the iconic balcony and vintage motel signage rendered in vivid, almost disquieting clarity. The image reflects Sternfeld's broader interest in the layered and often contradictory meanings embedded in the American landscape.