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Polar Circle in the Desert
Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
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Polar Circle in the Desert

Artist/Maker (Mexico, b. 1961)
Date1999
Mediumcolor photograph
DimensionsSight: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm)
Framed: 22 5/8 x 26 5/8 x 3/4 in. (57.5 x 67.6 x 1.9 cm)
ClassificationsVisual Works
Credit LineGift of the Artist
Terms
    Object number2003.2.1
    DescriptionAlfredo de Stéfano is one of the few Latin American photographers to have systematically photographed landscape, and the only one to have focused exclusively on the desert. His mere choice of habitat subverts most motivations for photographing the landscape. The desert is an inhospitable place whose barrenness hides the fact that it was once fertile and green. Human intervention has increased the size of deserts and is one of the insights that guide De Stéfano’s work. His work with desert landscapes constantly evolves, overriding the photograph and the very landscape itself with the incorporation of site-specific installations.
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