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NEW REVISED EDITION
Joel Sternfeld
American Prospects
This is the definitive edition of Joel Sternfeld’s seminal American Prospects, developed in close association with
Sternfeld and featuring new photographs, and a revised format and cover. The subjects of the now classic American
Prospects include a fireman shopping for a pumpkin while a house burns behind him; motorcyclists at the side of the
road taking in a stunning, placid view of Bear Lake, Utah; the hi-tech world headquarters of the Manville Corporation in
picturesque Colorado, obscured by a defiant boulder; and a lone basketball net in the desert near Lake Powell in Arizona.
The book is a search for the truth of a country not just as it exists in a particular era, but as it is in its ever- evolving
essence. It is a sad poem, but also a funny and generous one that recognizes endurance, poignant beauty and determination
within its sometimes tense, often ironic juxtapositions of man and nature, technology and ruin.
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), Oxbow Archive (2008) and
First Pictures (2011).
Joel Sternfeld
American Prospects
Essays by Kerry Brougher, Andy Grundberg and Anne W. Tucker
Book design by Joel Sternfeld and Gerhard Steidl
160 pages
15.4 x 12 in. / 39 x 30.5 cm
70 photographs
Four-colour process
Clothbound hardcover with a tipped-in photo
€ 98.00 / £ 80.00 / distributed in the USA by DAP
ISBN 978-3-88243-915-1
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