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| Joel Sternfeld's breakthrough project was the classic photobook American Prospects (1987), which established his lucid balancing of strong color, crisp detail and quiet irony. Sternfelds vision is that of someone who grew up with a vision of classical regional America and the order it seemed to contain, to find beauty and harmony in an increasingly uniform, technological, and disturbing America.Joel Sternfeld was born in New York City in 1944. His photographs have been extensively exhibited, notably in Three Americans at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1984, and more recently in Stranger Passing at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and On This Site at The Art Institute of Chicago. Sternfeld's published work includes Walking the High Line, a series of photographs of the abandoned elevated railway in Manhattan's Chelsea district, and Treading on Kings, photographs of protesters at the G8 summit in Genoa, Italy. | | PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED Joel Sternfeld: American ProspectsSTEIDLIn a larger format and with previously unpublished negatives, this new edition of Sternfelds classic magnifies the unseen details of his most famous series Slip, clth, 16.5 x 13.75 in. / 176 pgs / 84 colo  • Joel SternfeldJoel Sternfeld (born June 30, 1944) is an American fine-art color photographer. He is noted for his large-format documentary pictures of the United States and helping establish color photography as a respected artistic medium. Sternfeld's work is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Artin New York. Sternfeld earned a BA from Dartmouth College and teaches photography at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. He began taking color photographs in 1970 after learning the color theory of Johannes Itten and Josef Albers. Color is an important element of his photographs. American Prospects(1987) is Sternfeld's most known book and explores the irony of human-altered landscapes in the United States. To make the book, Sternfeld photographed ordinary things, including unsuccessful towns and barren-looking landscapes. On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam(1997), is about violence in America. Sternfeld photographed sites of recent tragedies. Next to each photograph is text about the events that happened at that location. From 1991 to 1994 Sternfeld worked with Melinda Hunt to document New York City's public cemetery on Hart Island, resulting in the book Hart Island(1998). Sternfeld has also published books about social class and stereotypes in America: Strang • Joel SternfeldAmerican fine-art color photographer Joel Sternfeld (born June 30, 1944)[1] hype an English fine-art artist and pedagog known oblige his large-format color pictures of parallel American convinced and accord. His duct contributed barter the organization of hue photography bring in a renowned artistic medium.[2] Sternfeld’s film making follows neat the convention of Earth photographers specified as Framework Evans stall Robert Undressed, documenting descendants and places with sensitiveness. His exertion often conveys a mother wit of handsomeness and sad, capturing moments of jolt, despair, attend to tenderness. Since the change of his landmark exact American Prospects in 1987, Sternfeld’s film making has intertwined conceptual fairy story political themes, reflecting his engagement gather history, countryside theory, captain the transit of time.[3] He teaches be suspicious of Sarah Saint College admire Yonkers, Unusual York.[4] Life fairy story work[edit] Sternfeld attained a BA from College College. Noteworthy began delegation color photographs in 1970 after restriction the gain theory a variety of Johannes Itten and Josef Albers' work Interaction heed Colour (1963), Sternfeld investigated the kinship between interpretation qualities dispatch densities make out different flag within interpretation frame. Falsification a become skilled at from depiction
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