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American Prospects
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American Prospects Paperback - 1994

by Joel Sternfeld (Photographer); Preface by Andy Grundberg; Introduction by Andy Grundberg

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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 poignance and resonance of an America uneasy about its past and uncertain of its future.

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  • Title American Prospects
  • Author Joel Sternfeld (Photographer); Preface by Andy Grundberg; Introduction by Andy Grundberg
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Second Edition
  • Pages 128
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Chronicle Books, San Francisco
  • Publication date 1994
  • ISBN 9780811806602 / 081180660X
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 1 x 1 x 1 in (2.54 x 2.54 x 2.54 cm)
  • Category Photography
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 93035406
  • Dewey Decimal Code 779.997

About the author

Joel Sternfeld was born in New York City. His work has been extensively published and exhibited, most notably at The Museum of Modern Art in New York and The Art Institute in Chicago, and is included in numerous private and public collections in this count

Andy Grundberg Andy Grundberg has been writing about art and photography since 1974. He is currently the Director of The Friends of Photography in San Francisco.

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