Fall/Winter 2012/2013 - Steidl
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A Woman Out Shopping with Her Pet Rabbit, Santa Monica, California, August 1988<br />
NEW REVISED EDITION<br />
Joel Sternfeld<br />
Stranger Passing<br />
Over a period of fifteen years Joel Sternfeld travelled across America and took portrait photographs that form in Douglas<br />
R. Nickel’s words an “intelligent, unscientific, interpretive sampling of what Americans looked like at the century’s end.”<br />
Unlike historical portraits which represent significant people in staged surroundings, Sternfeld’s subjects are uncannily<br />
“normal”: a banker having an evening meal, a teenager collecting shopping carts in a parking lot, a homeless man<br />
holding his bedding. Using August Sander’s classic photograph of three peasants on their way to a dance as a starting<br />
point, Sternfeld employed a conceptual strategy that amounts to a new theory of the portrait, which might be termed<br />
“The Circumstantial Portrait”. What happens when we encounter the other in the mist of a circumstance? What presumptions,<br />
if any, are valid? What, if anything, can be known of the other from a photographic portrait?<br />
A major figure in the photography world, 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 books<br />
published by <strong>Steidl</strong> include American Prospects (2003), Sweet Earth (2006), Oxbow Archive (2008), First Pictures<br />
(2011) and On This Site (<strong>2012</strong>).<br />
Joel Sternfeld<br />
Stranger Passing<br />
Essays by Douglas R. Nickel and Ian Frazier<br />
Book design by Joel Sternfeld and Gerhard <strong>Steidl</strong><br />
132 pages<br />
13.4 x 11.4 in. / 34 x 29 cm<br />
60 photographs<br />
Four colour process<br />
Clothbound hardcover with a tipped-in photo<br />
€ 65.00 / £ 50.00 / US$ 88.00<br />
ISBN 978-3-86930-499-1<br />
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