LATITUDE: 31°25'0"N / LONGITUDE: 34°27'51"E, October 10, 2011. Decommissioned British-era munitions storage bases near the Gaza border. The concrete road that runs through the center was constructed to connect the armories with an airport that was also built in Gaza in the early 1940s in anticipation of an attack by the Germans from North Africa under the command of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel during WWII. The site is on the historical Bedouin villages of Abu Mʽēlek/Ḥasanāt, of the Tarabīn tribe, which were evacuated in 1948. The surrounding fields have been plowed by the nearby Israeli kibbutz in preparation for planting., from the series Desert Bloom

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: 2021.1.1.31
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

ink jet printing, inkjet prints, landscapes (representations), pigment prints, pigment processes

borders (boundaries), deserts

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