LATITUDE: 31°17'5"N / LONGITUDE: 34°45'43"E, November 22, 2011. Abandoned ammunitions storage along the city perimeter of Beersheba. The image shows the earthwork mounds that protect each storage facility, and the road that winds between the three sections of this particular installation, comprised of eighteen separate compartments in total. Constructed in the British Mandate era and subsequently used by the Israelis, the site was eventually deemed to be too near to the outer city limits of Beersheba, and was fully vacated in 2004., 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: 2021.1.1.45
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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