Description:
1st edition of Steidl’s expanded edition of Joel Sternfeld’s classic, ‘American Prospects’, first published by Times books in 1987.
“Joel Sternfeld travelled the country for around eight years with a 8x10 view camera and colour film, a sojourn that produced his first and best-known book, American Prospects... The particular quality brought by Sternfeld to the 8x10 colour-landscape aesthetic... is a clear sense of narrative... In American Prospects, each picture suggests an arcane drama being played out—an elephant stranded on a road in Oregon, or a pumpkin stall in Virginia behind which a house burns fiercely. These narrative hints are suggestive, sly, often ironic, frequently mysterious, making American Prospects less a series of photographs than a series of tales—unfinished, elliptical certainly—that add up to a cogent and persuasive view of America...” (Parr/Badger, The Photobook).
“All of my work has been about ideas of utopia and dystopia. I think that’s what gives America interest. It’s many things all at once. It’s such a complicated society”
Joel Sternfeld
Publication Date: 2003
Publisher: Steidl
Condition: Very Good
Book Size: 38.5 x 31cm
Pages: 72
Format: Hard Cover
ISBN: 3-88243-915-7
Description:
1st edition of Steidl’s expanded edition of Joel Sternfeld’s classic, ‘American Prospects’, first published by Times books in 1987.
“Joel Sternfeld travelled the country for around eight years with a 8x10 view camera and colour film, a sojourn that produced his first and best-known book, American Prospects... The particular quality brought by Sternfeld to the 8x10 colour-landscape aesthetic... is a clear sense of narrative... In American Prospects, each picture suggests an arcane drama being played out—an elephant stranded on a road in Oregon, or a pumpkin stall in Virginia behind which a house burns fiercely. These narrative hints are suggestive, sly, often ironic, frequently mysterious, making American Prospects less a series of photographs than a series of tales—unfinished, elliptical certainly—that add up to a cogent and persuasive view of America...” (Parr/Badger, The Photobook).
“All of my work has been about ideas of utopia and dystopia. I think that’s what gives America interest. It’s many things all at once. It’s such a complicated society”
Joel Sternfeld
Publication Date: 2003
Publisher: Steidl
Condition: Very Good
Book Size: 38.5 x 31cm
Pages: 72
Format: Hard Cover
ISBN: 3-88243-915-7