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After a Flash Flood, Rancho Mirage, California by Joel Sternfeld — VisualArtsDB

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After a Flash Flood, Rancho Mirage, California

1979

Medium: Chromogenic print, printed 1987
Dimensions: 15 15/16 × 20" (40.5 × 50.8 cm)
Genre: photograph
Museum: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

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Alpha Farm, Deadwood, Oregon, from the series "Sweet Earth: Experimental Utopias in America"

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Yellowstone National Park, from the series "American Prospects"

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Joel Sternfeld, 1993

Runner, Central Park, New York City, from the series "Stranger Passing"

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Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Alternate Highway 14, twelve miles north of Cody, Wyoming, from the series "On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam"

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