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Book Description: Bulfinch, 2001. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. New Book.Free delivery confirmation and your order ships within 24 hours of your order. Bookseller Inventory # 090901022

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Book Description: Bulfinch Press / Little Brown and Company and Melcher Media Inc. in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2001. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed in black ink on the title page by Sternfeld. Hardcover. Fine dark gray cloth-covered boards with title stamped in silver on front cover and spine, with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs by Joel Sternfeld. Essays by Ian Frazier and Douglas R. Nickel. 144 pp. with 60 four-color plates and 4 color reference illustrations, printed by Amilcare Pizzi, S.p.A., Milan, Italy. 12 x 13 3/4 inches. Published on the occasion of the 2001 exhibition Stranger Passing: Collected Portraits by Joel Sternfeld at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. CONDITION: New in New dust jacket (opened only for signature). A Mint copy. From the publisher: "Joel Sternfeld first came to international attention in 1987 with the publication of American Prospects, a landmark study of how the social order is revealed through landscape. While harkening back to Walker Evans's austere summation of the 1930s and Robert Frank's despairing view of the 1950s, the pictures in American Prospects set forth a complex field theory. They spoke, in the words of critic Andy Grundberg, of a time when "the land lost its last pretense of innocence," but also "of men and women seeking to accommodate their primal needs to the imperatives of technological society." Stranger Passing expands that study and functions as a companion to American Prospects. In it, the inhabitants come to the foreground as America "sits for its portrait," in the words of Douglas Nickel, curator of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. At a moment when individual identity may be reduced to a matter of consumer choice, Sternfeld's clear empathy for his subjects rescues the pictures from a nihilistic viewpoint. Ian Frazier writes, "Often what Sternfeld's photographs describe is endless, shaky potential. The unreadability of what he sees on the surface only enhances the country's mystery. Endlessness of possibility makes for longing; longing is the essential American emotion which these photographs hold. Signed by Author. Bookseller Inventory # 102512

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Book Description: Bulfinch, New York, 2001. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 2nd Edition. A MINT/MINT Signed/dated First edition HC/DJ. Bookseller Inventory # 1307

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