| Joel Sternfeld: First Pictures Contributor(s): Sternfeld, Joel (Photographer) |
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ISBN: 3869303093 ISBN-13: 9783869303093 Publisher: Steidl OUR PRICE: $67.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Photography | Subjects & Themes - General - Photography | Individual Photographers - Monographs |
| Dewey: 770.92 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 11.8" W x 9.8" (5.10 lbs) 324 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is the first book of Joel Sternfeld's largely unseen early color photographs. In 1969 Sternfeld began working with a 35-mm camera and Kodachrome film, and First Pictures contains works from this time until 1980. Here Sternfeld develops traits that appear in his mature work: irony, a politicized view of America, concern for the social condition. But there are also pictures that bear little relation to his later work: color arrangements that parallel those of Eggleston, as well as street photography which Sternfeld ceased making in 1976. The photographs in First Pictures were made at a time when color photography was struggling to assert itself against the authoritative black-and-white tradition, making this book a revelation both in Sternfeld's oeuvre and in the history of contemporary photography. A major figure in the photography world, 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 books published by Steidl include American Prospects (2003), Sweet Earth (2006) and Oxbow Archive (2008). |