April 19, 2007, The East Meadows, Northampton, Massachusetts
<p>Joel Sternfeld, <em>April 19, 2007, The East Meadows, Northampton, Massachusetts</em>, 2007, printed 2018. Chromogenic print, sheet: 71 15/16 × 88 1/2 in. (182.7 × 224.8 cm) Image: 65 13/16 × 82 9/16 in. (167.2 × 209.7 cm) Mount: 72 × 88 1/2 × 1/8 in. (182.9 × 224.8 × 0.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Promised gift of Jeanne and Richard S. Press P.2020.2</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 2007
- Medium
- Chromogenic print
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 71 15/16 × 88 1/2 in. (182.7 × 224.8 cm) Image: 65 13/16 × 82 9/16 in. (167.2 × 209.7 cm) Mount: 72 × 88 1/2 × 1/8 in. (182.9 × 224.8 × 0.3 cm)
- Collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- 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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Record
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- Joel Sternfeld
- Year
- 2007
- Medium
- Chromogenic print
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 71 15/16 × 88 1/2 in. (182.7 × 224.8 cm) Image: 65 13/16 × 82 9/16 in. (167.2 × 209.7 cm) Mount: 72 × 88 1/2 × 1/8 in. (182.9 × 224.8 × 0.3 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-2007-169741
Source
- Collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Source
- whitney
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified