Joel Sternfeld: First Pictures

di Joel Sternfeld (Autore)

Steidl Publishers, 2011

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.

• Autore: Joel Sternfeld
• Editore: Steidl Publishers
• Anno: 2011
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 326 p.
• Dimensioni: 244 x 295 mm
• Peso: 2240 gr.
• EAN: 9783869303093

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