Joel Sternfeld is an American fine-art colour photographer. He is noted for his large-format documentary pictures of the United States and helping establish colour photography as a respected artistic medium. Sternfeld’s work is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Joel was influenced by the roadside photography of Walker Evans, Sternfeld’s projects document people and places with an exacting sense of colour that visually rhymes with the subject matter, as seen in his seminal series American Prospects (1987). “No individual photo explains anything.
Even though Joel Sternfeld isn’t your typical “street photographer” he started off as one. Although he was inspired by his contemporaries at the time and started off shooting with a 35mm Leica (like everyone else) he eventually branched out and found his own voice shooting large-format 8×10 colour landscape photographs.
Joel Sternfeld, McLean, Virginia, December 4, 1978
American Prospects – Book by Joel Sternfeld
American Prospects is a book that was first published in 1987 and was produced by Joel Sternfeld. The book contains 152 pages and 71 images all displayed in the same way. All the images that are in the book all have similar features such as a slight natural location with a few man-made structures throughout. The book usually costs around £85-£100.
