LATITUDE: 31°7'40"N / LONGITUDE: 34°18'49"E, November 13, 2011. Border zone between the Negev and Egyptian Sinai. The road at top left leads to the border a few hundred meters away. The white cubic boxes demarcate underground communication and power cables that supply the border fence. The intersecting line is a seismic test line used for oil exploration. A few kilometers south of the site, the state runs various prisons, initially for Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza, later for illegal migrants. Asylum-seekers from states in which war is ongoing, or from “enemy” states such as Sudan to which Israel cannot deport, can be detained here indefinitely., 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: 2021.1.1.34
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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