LATITUDE: 30°52'27"N / LONGITUDE: 35°16'1"E, October 9, 2011. Marks of passage and erasure along the historic north–south travel route. Once the main route to Eilat, the track now runs alongside Highway 90 and is still used by heavy vehicles, including bulldozers and military convoys. The white calcareous sediment and beds of salt and gypsum that make up the surface create a silt-like terrain that records the tire tracks. This particular section shows portions that have been washed away by flooding coming from the direction of the ancient Dead Sea tributaries., from the series Desert Bloom Artist: Fazal Sheikh (American, born 1965)

2011

Medium: Pigmented inkjet print
Dimensions: image: 15 9/16 × 23 7/16 in. (39.5 × 59.5 cm)
sheet: 20 1/16 × 27 15/16 in. (51 × 71 cm)
framed: 21 7/16 × 29 5/16 in. (54.5 × 74.5 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with a gift from Jane P. Watkins, M.P.H. 1979
Accession Number: 2021.1.1.8
Culture: American
Period: 20th century
Classification: Photographs
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Provenance

Purchased from the artist, Zürich, Switzerland, 2011- 2020; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Object copyright

In Copyright

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Object/Work type

inkjet prints, landscapes (representations), pigment prints

deserts

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