- Joel Sternfeld
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birthdate = 1944
location =New York City ,New York ,United States
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awards =Joel Sternfeld, (b.
1944 ,New York City ), is a colorphotographer noted for his large-format documentary pictures of theUnited States .Sternfeld earned a BA from
Dartmouth College and teaches photography atSarah Lawrence College in New York. He began taking color photographs in 1970 after learning the color theory ofJohannes Itten andJosef 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.
Another book, "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. Sternfeld has also published books about social class and stereotypes in America ("Stranger Passing" [2001] ), an abandoned elevated railway in New York ("Walking the High Line" [2002] ), and a book titled "Sweet Earth: Experimental Utopias in America" ( [2006] ). A new book containing close-up portraits of delegates debating global warming at an
United Nations conference in Montreal, titled "When It Changed", is currently slated for publication in July 2007.External links
* [http://www.luhringaugustine.com/index.php?mode=artists&object_id=67 Luhring Augustine Gallery.]
* [http://www.billcharles.com/sternfeld/joelsternfeld_1.htm Another gallery of pictures]
* [http://photography.about.com/library/weekly/aa121602a.htm A longer biography and description of his books]
* [http://www.steidlville.com/books/426-When-it-Changed.html Steidl site on "When It Changed"]
* [http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/3/sternfeld.php "The High Line" photograph by Steidl published in Cabinet Magazine ]
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