Joel Sternfeld, First Pictures, English Edition : Exhibition: Museum Folkwang Essen, 2011, Albertina Wien, 2012 and C/O Berlin, 2012/2013 （2011. 316 p. w. numerous col. photographs. 24,9 x 30 cm）

Photographs by Joel Sternfeld

STEIDL（2011発売）

• ページ数 320 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783869303093

Full Description

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.