American prospects : photographs / by Joel Sternfeld ; introduction by Andy Grundberg ; afterword by Anne W. Tucker.

Main entry:

Sternfeld, Joel, photographer.

Title & Author:

American prospects : photographs / by Joel Sternfeld ; introduction by Andy Grundberg ; afterword by Anne W. Tucker.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York : Times Books in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, [1987]
©1987

Description:

15 unnumbered pages, 53 [i.e. 55] leaves of plates : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 x 32 cm

Notes:
"Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, April 4-June 6, 1987"--Title page verso.

Summary:

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 fineart 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 poignancy and resonance of an America uneasy about its past and uncertain of its future.

Resources:
http://librarymedia.nga.gov/library/thumbs/352128/352128_001.jpg

ISBN:

081291659X
9780812916591

Subject:

Sternfeld, Joel Exhibitions.
Sternfeld, Joel
Photography, Artistic Exhibitions.
Photographie artistique Expositions.
Photography, Artistic
United States Pictorial works Exhibitions.
United States

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
illustrated books.
Illustrated works
Exhibition catalogs
Exhibition, pictorial works
Catalogues d'exposition.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Tucker, Anne. author of afterword, colophon, etc.
Grundberg, Andy, writer of introduction.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 20372
Call No.: IDM; ID:87-B7495
Status: Available

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