Joel Sternfeld

Biography• Born: June 30, 1944• Age: 71• From: New York, NY• Education: BA in Art from Dartmouth College (1965)• Awards:

• Prix de Rome.• The Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.• The National Endowment for the Arts Photographers Fellowship.

AboutSternfeld began making color photographs in the 1970’s after learning the color theory of Johannes (Johannes Itten was one of the first people to define and identify strategies for successful color combinations.). He started off using small/ medium- format cameras. But by the time he started one of his projects (“American Prospects”) in 1987, he was using an 10x8in format camera (accordion looking thing). Those cameras let him attain sharp details, that was what his photography was known for. After he finished “American Prospects” Sternfeld continued to apply Johannes color theory in his other project. Those being “On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam” (1997), “Stranger Passing” (2001), and “Walking the High Line”(2002), “Sweet Earth: Experimental Utopias in America” (2006).

Style of PhotographySternfeld’s style is Street photography. He put allot of attention to visual qualities as well as insightful and generally raw view of his subjects.

McLean, Virginia, December 1978

Digital c-print42 x 52 ½ inches

Abandoned Freighter, Homer, Alaska, July 1984

Digital c-print42 x 52 ½ inches

518 101st Street, Love Canal Neighborhood, Niagara Falls, New York, May 1994

C-print18 ½ X 23 inches

The National Civil Rights Museum, formerly the Lorraine Motel, 450 Mulberry Street, Memphis,

Tennessee, August 1993C-print

18 ½ X 23 inches

A Tourist at the South Street Seaport, New York, New York, July

1987Ektacolor print mounted on plexi

36 X 45 ½ inches

A Woman with Her Artwork, Portland, Maine, August 1992

Ektacolor print mounted on plexi36 X 45 ½ inches

A Railroad Artifact, 30th Street, May 2000

Digital c-print39 ½ X 50 inches

Queen Anne's Lace, July 2001

Digital c-print39 ½ X 50 inches

Arcadia Cohousing, Carrboro, North Carolina, April 2005Digital c-print

26 ½ x 33 ¼ inches

Runis of Drop City, Trinidad, Colorado, August 1995

Digital c-print26 ½ x 33 ¼

The East Meadows, Northampton, Massachusetts, July 29, 2005Digital c-print

72 X 88 1/2 inches

Emulation

Supervisor Dan White's former office, Room 235, City Hall, San Francisco, California, July 1994

C-print18 1/2 X 23 inches

Emulation

Grafton, West Virginia, February 1983Digital c-print

Image size: 42 x 52 1/2 inches

Emulation

Bibliography"Joel Sternfeld - Luhring Augustine." Joel Sternfeld - Luhring Augustine. Web. 21 Apr. 2015. <http://www.luhringaugustine.com/artists/joel-sternfeld#>.

"Joel Sternfeld (Getty Museum)." The J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles. Web. 21 Apr. 2015. <http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/3731/joel-sternfeld-american-born-1944/>.

"Joel Sternfeld | Artspace." Artspace. Web. 21 Apr. 2015. <http://www.artspace.com/joel_sternfeld>.

"Pics For Joel Sternfeld Portraits." Pics For Joel Sternfeld Portraits. Web. 21 Apr. 2015. <http://pixshark.com/joel-sternfeld-portraits.htm>.