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Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects by Kerry Brougher (2012, Hardcover)
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Joel Sternfeld. 140 pages. Out of Print - 2012. New, still-sealed copy. Perfect in all respects. Long out of print and scarce, esp. in new/sealed condition.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherD.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
ISBN-101935202979
ISBN-139781935202974
eBay Product ID (ePID)117233611
Product Key Features
Book TitleJoel Sternfeld: American Prospects
Number of Pages140 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2012
TopicIndividual Photographers / Monographs, General, American / General, United States / General
IllustratorYes
GenreArt, Travel, Photography
AuthorKerry Brougher
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight0 Oz
Item Length11.8 in
Item Width14.5 in
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ReviewsPictures that were once compelling oddities are now linked into an original meditation, on the national life. It clinches the case for Sternfeld as an emerging American master., In the late 1970s and early '80s Joel Sternfield criss-crossed the country, from Beverly Hills, Calif., to Aroostook County, Me., capturing Thoreau's lives of quiet desperation whipsawed by the American dream in transition."American Prospects," first issued in 1987, is an essential document in understanding both 20th- and 21st-century America., American Prospects is less a composed sequence than a series of deceptively classical compositions. But many of the pictures contain wild juxtapositions: firefighters extinguish a blaze while one of their number shops nonchalantly for pumpkins matching the flames; a basketball hoop stands sentry in a new suburban dead end; pretty flowers shimmer alongside a sports car in the same wild pink. The idealized semirural life is really a world of uncanny disquiet, perfectly suited to the still and mute image.
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal779.997392
SynopsisFirst published in 1987, Joel Sternfeld's American Prospects is the classic photo record of 1980s America. This definitive edition, made with new plates and including one additional photograph, offers a spectacular, funny, sad and soberly riveting portrait of America's diverse possibilities and prospects in the Reagan era. From the famous "Wet n' Wild Aquatic Theme Park" in Florida to "The Space Shuttle Columbia Lands at Kelly Air Force Base" in San Antonio, Texas; from melancholy images of beached whales in Oregon to beautiful views of Yellowstone National Park and Bear Lake in Utah; from post-tornado Nebraska to a previously unseen photograph from the series, "Bikini Contest, Fort Lauderdale, FL, March 1983"; the sublime contradictions and tragicomedy of this volume are without doubt one of the greatest accomplishments of color photography, all the more fully realized in this splendid new edition. An essay by Kerry Brougher, Chief Curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, considers the historical context of Sternfeld's book and the pivotal role that American Prospects has played in the evolution of contemporary filmmaking and art photography. A major exponent of color photography in America, Joel Sternfeld was born in New York City in 1944. He has received numerous awards including two Guggenheim fellowships, a Prix de Rome and the Citibank Photography Award. Sternfeld's other books include On This Site (1997), Hart Island (1998), Stranger Passing (2001), Walking the High Line (2002), Sweet Earth (2006), When It Changed (2007), Oxbow Archive (2008) and First Pictures (2011).
Text byBrougher, Kerry, Grundberg, Andy, Tucker, Anne
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