Background
Joel Peter Sternfeld was born on June 30, 1944, in New York, United States.
Joel Sternfeld
(First published in 1987 to widespread critical acclaim an...)
First published in 1987 to widespread critical acclaim and hailed by People magazine as one of the ten best books of the 1980s, Joel Sternfeld's startling visual chronicle is at once funny and despairing, calmly beautiful and grim. Sternfeld may be America's greatest fine art color photographer, and here his luxuriant landscapes are full of sly surprises and deadpan wit: a renegade elephant lies exhausted on a road; beached whales daintily punctuate a majestic seascape; a fireman buys pumpkins while a house burns behind him. Now published in an exquisite paper-bound edition with a new preface, these pictures carry even more weight than when they were first seen; they have the poignance and resonance of an America uneasy about its past and uncertain of its future.
https://www.amazon.com/American-Prospects-Joel-Sternfeld/dp/081180660X/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=Joel+Sternfeld+American+Prospects+%281987%29&qid=1605179720&sr=8-2
1987
(A photographic journey through this public burial ground ...)
A photographic journey through this public burial ground in New York, where over three-quarters of a million people have been buried since its purchase in 1869.
https://www.amazon.com/Hart-Island-Melinda-Hunt/dp/393114190X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Joel+Sternfeld+Hart+Island&qid=1605179885&sr=8-1
1998
(Over a period of 15 years, Joel Sternfeld traveled across...)
Over a period of 15 years, Joel Sternfeld traveled across America and took portrait photographs that form, in Douglas R. Nickel's words, "an intelligent, unscientific, interpretive sampling of what Americans looked like at the century's end." Unlike historical portraits which represent significant people in staged surroundings, Sternfeld's subjects are uncannily normal: a banker having an evening meal, a teenager collecting shopping carts in a parking lot, a homeless man holding his bedding. Using August Sander's classic photograph of three peasants on their way to a dance as a starting point, Sternfeld employed a conceptual strategy that amounts to a new theory of the portrait, which might be termed The Circumstantial Portrait. What happens when we encounter the other in the midst of a circumstance? What presumptions, if any, are valid? What, if anything, can be known of the other from a photographic portrait?
https://www.amazon.com/Joel-Sternfeld-Stranger-Passing/dp/3869304995/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Joel+Sternfeld+Stranger+Passing&qid=1605179959&sr=8-1
2001
(When It Changed contains close-up portraits of delegates ...)
When It Changed contains close-up portraits of delegates debating global warming at the 2005 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Montreal.
https://www.amazon.com/Joel-Sternfeld-When-Changed/dp/3865212786/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Joel+Sternfeld+When+It+Changed&qid=1605180136&sr=8-1
2007
(On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam is about violence in ...)
On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam is about violence in America. Sternfeld photographed sites of recent tragedies. Next to each photograph is a text about the events that happened at that location.
https://www.amazon.com/This-Site-Joel-Sternfeld/dp/0811814378/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Joel+Sternfeld+On+This+Site%3A+Landscape+in+Memoriam&qid=1605179801&sr=8-1
Joel Peter Sternfeld was born on June 30, 1944, in New York, United States.
Joel Sternfeld received a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1965.
Joel Sternfeld was an assistant professor of photography at Stockton College, Pomona, New Jersey in 1980. Using color, he does 8x10 landscapes and small-format street photography.
Sternfeld's projects have consistently explored the possibility of collective American identity by documenting ordinary people and places throughout the country. Each project he embarks on is bound by a concept that imbues it with subtle irony, often through insightful visual juxtapositions or by pairing images with informational text. Another characteristic aspect of Sternfeld's work is that color is never arbitrary; it functions in highly sophisticated ways to connect elements and resonate emotion.
(First published in 1987 to widespread critical acclaim an...)
1987(A photographic journey through this public burial ground ...)
1998(When It Changed contains close-up portraits of delegates ...)
2007(Over a period of 15 years, Joel Sternfeld traveled across...)
2001(On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam is about violence in ...)