First pictures : Joel Sternfeld
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First pictures : Joel Sternfeld
Steidl, 2011
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Joel Sternfeld
Joel Sternfeld, color photographs since 1970
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"Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Joel Sternfeld. Color Photographs since 1970', Museum Folkwang, Essen, July 16-October 23, 2011; Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam (Foam), December 15, 2011-March 14, 2012; Albertina, Vienna, June 26-October 14, 2012; C/O Berlin, International Forum For Visual Dialogues, December 7, 2012- February 2013" -- Colophon
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This is the first book of Sternfeld’s largely unseen early colour photographs. In 1969 Sternfeld began working with a 35 mm camera and Kodachrome film, and First Pictures contains works from this time until 1980. Here Sternfeld develops traits that appear in his mature work: irony, a politicised view of America, concern for the social condition. But there are also pictures that bear little relation to his later work: colour arrangements that parallel those of Eggleston, as well as street photography which Sternfeld ceased making in 1976. The photographs in First Pictures were made at a time when colour photography was struggling to assert itself against the authoritative black and white tradition, making this book a revelation both in Sternfeld’s oeuvre and in the history of contemporary photography.
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