Tree growing into the water channel of the Anio Novus Aqueduct and through it to the water channel of the Claudian Aqueduct, near Cinecittà, Rome, from the series "Campagna Romana: the Countryside of Ancient Rome"
Catalogue
- Year
- 1991
- Medium
- Chromogenic prints (2)
- Dimensions
- Each image: 39.8 × 50.8 cm (15 11/16 × 20 in.); Mount: 60.4 × 122 cm (23 13/16 × 48 1/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Joel Sternfeld
Artist
Photography
Joel Sternfeld is an American photographer known for large-format color photographs of American landscapes and vernacular architecture. Working primarily in the 1970s and 1980s, he employed saturated chromogenic color film to document the texture and typography of built and natural environments across the United States. His deadpan formal approach and precise compositional control transform ordinary suburban and industrial scenes into richly chromatic studies of postwar American spatial culture. Sternfeld's work challenged the documentary photography establishment's then-dominant preference for black-and-white practice.
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Piedmont Biofuels, Pittsboro, North Carolina, from the series "Sweet Earth: Experimental Utopias in America"
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Queen of the Prom, the Range Nightclub, Slab City, California, from the series "Sweet Earth: Experimental Utopias in America"
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Homecoming Day, Nicodemus, Kansas, from the series "Sweet Earth: Experimental Utopias in America"
2005 · Chromogenic print
Milagro Cohousing, Tucson, Arizona, from the series "Sweet Earth: Experimental Utopias in America"
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"Learning" by Jean Charlot, Camp Rockmount, Black Mountain, North Carolina, from the series "Sweet Earth: Experimental Utopias in America"
2005 · Chromogenic print
Liz Christy Garden, Bowery and Houston Streets, New York City, from the series "Sweet Earth: Experimental Utopias in America"
2005 · Chromogenic print
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- Joel Sternfeld
- Year
- 1991
- Medium
- Chromogenic prints (2)
- Dimensions
- Each image: 39.8 × 50.8 cm (15 11/16 × 20 in.); Mount: 60.4 × 122 cm (23 13/16 × 48 1/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1991-097429
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified