Sternfeld, Joel, photographer.

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

First edition.

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

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

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.

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

Localisation: Bibliothèque main m 20372
Cote: IDM; ID:87-B7495
Statut: Disponible