Fall/Winter 2012/2013 - Steidl
Fall/Winter 2012/2013 - Steidl
Fall/Winter 2012/2013 - Steidl
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
50<br />
McLean, Virginia, December 1978<br />
Exhausted Renegade Elephant, Woodland, Washington, June 1979<br />
NEW REVISED EDITION<br />
Joel Sternfeld<br />
American Prospects<br />
This is the definitive edition of Joel Sternfeld’s seminal American Prospects made from new printing plates and<br />
technology that did not exist at the time of the 2003 <strong>Steidl</strong> edition. The book is otherwise unchanged, except for the<br />
addition of one new image. The subjects of American Prospects include a fireman picking out a pumpkin at a farm<br />
stand while a classic American house burns in the background, a lone basketball hoop in a vast Southwestern desert<br />
reminiscent of the Creation, and whales beached in Oregon seemingly symbolic of ecological failure to come. These<br />
and other narrative pictures, “helped open the gates for a new type of photography now practised by Gregory Crewdson,<br />
Rineke Dijkstra, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth, and Jeff Wall, among many others… By corrupting the<br />
purity of photography, Sternfeld played a pivotal role in moving the medium forward.” (Kerry Brougher, Chief Curator at<br />
the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.)<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 />
American Prospects<br />
Essays by Kerry Brougher, Andy Grundberg<br />
and Anne W. Tucker<br />
Book design by Joel Sternfeld and Gerhard <strong>Steidl</strong><br />
160 pages<br />
15.4 x 12 in. / 39 x 30.5 cm<br />
70 photographs<br />
Four colour process<br />
Clothbound hardcover with a dust jacket<br />
€ 88.00 / £ 75.00 / distributed in the USA by DAP<br />
ISBN 978-3-88243-915-1<br />
51
Change language