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Definitive<br />
edition of an<br />
American<br />
photobook<br />
classic<br />
6 artBooK | D.a.p. 1.800.338.2665<br />
New Edition!<br />
Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects<br />
d.A.P./dIsTrIbuTed ArT PubLIshers<br />
Text by kerry brougher, Andy Grundberg, Anne w. Tucker.<br />
First published in 1987, Joel Sternfeld’s American Prospects is the classic photo record of 1980s america. this definitive edition, made<br />
with new plates and including one additional photograph, offers a spectacular, funny, sad and soberly riveting portrait of america’s diverse<br />
possibilities and prospects in the reagan era. From the famous “Wet n’ Wild aquatic theme park” in Florida to “the Space<br />
Shuttle Columbia Lands at Kelly air Force Base” in San antonio, texas; from melancholy images of beached whales in oregon to<br />
beautiful views of Yellowstone national park and Bear Lake in Utah; from post-tornado nebraska to a previously unseen photograph<br />
from the series, “Bikini Contest, Fort Lauderdale, FL, march 1983”; the sublime contradictions and tragicomedy of this volume are<br />
without doubt one of the greatest accomplishments of color photography, all the more fully realized in this splendid new edition. an<br />
essay by Kerry Brougher, Chief Curator at the Hirshhorn museum and Sculpture garden, considers the historical context of Sternfeld’s<br />
book and the pivotal role that American Prospects has played in the evolution of contemporary filmmaking and art photography.<br />
a major exponent of color photography in america, Joel Sternfeld was born in new York City in 1944. He has received numerous<br />
awards including two guggenheim fellowships, a prix de rome and the Citibank photography award. Sternfeld’s other books include<br />
On This Site (1997), Hart Island (1998), Stranger Passing (2001), Walking the High Line (2002), Sweet Earth (2006), When It<br />
Changed (2007), Oxbow Archive (2008) and First Pictures (2011).<br />
978-1-935202-97-4<br />
Clth, 14.5 x 11.75 in. / 140 pgs / 66 color.<br />
U.S. $125.00 CDn $125.00<br />
September/photography<br />
Doug Rickard: A New American Picture<br />
APerTure<br />
Text by david Company. Interview by erin o’Toole.<br />
Doug rickard’s A New American Picture offers a startling and fresh perspective on american street photography.<br />
While at first glance the work looks reassuringly familiar and well within the traditional bounds of the genre, rickard’s<br />
methodology is anything but conventional. all of the images are appropriated from google Street view; over a period<br />
of two years, rickard took advantage of the technology platform’s comprehensive image archive to virtually drive the<br />
unseen and overlooked roads of america—bleak places that are forgotten, economically devastated and abandoned.<br />
With an informed and careful eye, rickard finds and decodes these previously photographed scenes of urban and rural<br />
decay. He rephotographs the machine-made images as they appear on his computer screen, framing and freeing them<br />
from their technological origins. as geoff Dyer has commented on the work, “It was William eggleston who coined the<br />
phrase ‘photographing democratically,’ but rickard has used google’s indiscriminate omniscience to radically extend<br />
this enterprise—technologically, politically and aesthetically.” a limited-edition monograph of A New American Picture<br />
was published by White press/Schaden in 2010; upon publication, it was named a best book of that year by Photo-Eye<br />
magazine, and quickly went out of print. this edition brings rickard’s provocative series, including more than 30 new<br />
images, to a wider audience.<br />
Doug Rickard (born 1968) studied american history and sociology at University of California, San Diego. He is the<br />
founder of american Suburb x (www.americansuburbx.com) and these americans (www.theseamericans.com), aggregating<br />
websites for essays on contemporary photography and historical photographic archives. A New American<br />
Picture was included in the annual New Photography exhibition at the museum of modern art, new York, in 2011.<br />
978-1-59711-219-2<br />
Hbk, 12.5 x 9.75 in. / 144 pgs / 90 color.<br />
U.S. $60.00 CDn $60.00<br />
September/photography<br />
exHIBItIon SCHeDULe:<br />
new York: Yossi milo gallery, october 2012<br />
Seeing<br />
America<br />
through<br />
Google<br />
Street View<br />
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