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1. 1 2020-03-26T20:39:00+00:00 Craig Dietrich 2d66800a3e5a1eaee3a9ca2f91f391c8a6893490 The Border: Selections from the Escalette Permanent Collection of Art Craig Dietrich 1 May 2 - November 17, 2019 | Leatherby Libraries, Henley Reading Room plain 8851 2020-03-26T20:39:00+00:00 Craig Dietrich 2d66800a3e5a1eaee3a9ca2f91f391c8a6893490

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  “How we treat others is a reflection of who we are.”
  - Tom Kiefer

  Tom Kiefer is an American photographer based in Ajo, Arizona. Between 2003 and 2014 he worked as a custodian for the United States Customs and Border Patrol. The two works in the Escalette Collection belong to a series entitled El Sueño Americano (The American Dream,) an ongoing body of work that emerged from from his experiences. El Sueno Americano is a photographic essay of the discarded personal effects and belongings of migrants and smugglers apprehended by Border Patrol agents, discarded while being processed at a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol facility near the U.S./Mexico border in southern Arizona. Kiefer states that his intent is to explore the humanity of the migrants who risk their lives crossing through the desert and to create a personal connection for the viewer to a migrant and their hope for a better life.The tightly-photographed, evenly-lit artifacts—make-up, bibles, toothpaste, baby food, toys, soap, water bottles, soap and shoes—attest both to pain and to a sense of possibility.