A01=Joel Sternfeld
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Product details
- ISBN 9783869303093
- Weight: 2240g
- Dimensions: 295 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 15 Aug 2011
- Publisher: Steidl Publishers
- Publication City/Country: DE
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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.
