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Steidl

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Clth, 12 x 10 in. / 132 pgs / 60 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2015 p. 91   

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ISBN 9783958290211 TRADE
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Joel Sternfeld: Sweet Earth


As laissez-faire market forces sweep the globe and the earth's future seems endangered, the dream of living in concert with nature and with one another is increasingly essential. A common human longing throughout history, the utopian community ideal has taken root firmly in America over the past 200 years. In Sweet Earth: Experimental Utopias in America, Joel Sternfeld looks at 60 representative historic or present American utopias. Neither a conventional history nor a conventional book of photography, Sweet Earth brings together what might otherwise seem disparate, individualized social phenomena and makes visible the community of communities. This tradition of thinking has ancient, universal precedents. When Thomas More wrote Utopia in 1516, he gave a name to an idea that had included the Epic of Gilgamesh, Plato's Republic and the Old Testament's and he started an argument. Francis Bacon (who believed in utopia through science) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (utopia through nature) soon joined the debate, but it was the harsh changes in daily life engendered by the factory systems of the early Industrial Revolution that brought an urgency to the discussion, as seen in the writings of David Owens, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

While the early social theorists were largely European, it was in the fluid environment of young America that true utopian communities were built and utopian experimentation flourished. In the years between 1810 and 1850, hundreds of secular and religious societies bravely tried to build a “perfect” life for their members. In the twentieth century, experimentation began again, reaching a fever pitch in the turbulent days of the Vietnam War. Some of the late-1960s communes still survive and continue to flourish. The 1990s and the early years of the new millennium have become yet another hotbed of social experimentation. The co-housing movement is sweeping America with at least 70 communities fully completed and occupied and numerous others planned. At the same time, the rapid global expansion of sustainable communities known as ecovillages has been widely adopted in America.

This book by one of America's foremost artists includes a photograph of each community and is accompanied by brief text that summarizes the most salient aspects of the history or organization. A book that functions both as art, as well as a hopeful guide to alternative ways of life.
Joel Sternfeld: Sweet Earth

STATUS: Forthcoming | 6/24/2025

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JOEL STERNFELD MONOGRAPHS + ARTIST'S BOOKS

Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects

JOEL STERNFELD: AMERICAN PROSPECTS

Steidl

ISBN: 9783969991398
USD $175.00
| CAD $265

Pub Date: 12/31/2024
Forthcoming


Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects

JOEL STERNFELD: AMERICAN PROSPECTS

Steidl

ISBN: 9783969992296
USD $50.00
| CAD $73

Pub Date: 12/12/2023
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Joel Sternfeld: Nags Head

JOEL STERNFELD: NAGS HEAD

Steidl

ISBN: 9783969993187
USD $55.00
| CAD $79

Pub Date: 6/25/2024
Active | In stock


Joel Sternfeld: History in Pictures

JOEL STERNFELD: HISTORY IN PICTURES

Steidl

ISBN: 9783958297609
USD $65.00
| CAD $91

Pub Date: 6/24/2025
Forthcoming


Joel Sternfeld: Walking the High Line

JOEL STERNFELD: WALKING THE HIGH LINE

Steidl

ISBN: 9783958297647
USD $45.00
| CAD $65

Pub Date: 12/12/2023
Active | In stock


Joel Sternfeld: Our Loss

JOEL STERNFELD: OUR LOSS

Steidl

ISBN: 9783958296589
USD $50.00
| CAD $69.95

Pub Date: 9/17/2019
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Joel Sternfeld: Rome after Rome

JOEL STERNFELD: ROME AFTER ROME

Steidl

ISBN: 9783958292635
USD $95.00
| CAD $130

Pub Date: 11/12/2019
Active | In stock


Joel Sternfeld: Oxbow Archive

JOEL STERNFELD: OXBOW ARCHIVE

Steidl

ISBN: 9783958290204
USD $75.00
| CAD $99

Pub Date: 6/24/2025
Forthcoming


Joel Sternfeld: Sweet Earth

JOEL STERNFELD: SWEET EARTH

Steidl

ISBN: 9783958290211
USD $65.00
| CAD $87

Pub Date: 6/24/2025
Forthcoming


Frank Gohlke & Joel Sternfeld: Landscape as Longing

FRANK GOHLKE & JOEL STERNFELD: LANDSCAPE AS LONGING

Steidl

ISBN: 9783958290327
USD $75.00
| CAD $99

Pub Date: 4/25/2017
Active | In stock


Joel Sternfeld: Stranger Passing

JOEL STERNFELD: STRANGER PASSING

Steidl

ISBN: 9783869304991
USD $75.00
| CAD $99

Pub Date: 8/15/2012
Active | Out of stock


Joel Sternfeld: On This Site

JOEL STERNFELD: ON THIS SITE

Steidl

ISBN: 9783869304342
USD $65.00
| CAD $87

Pub Date: 7/15/2012
Active | In stock


Joel Sternfeld: First Pictures

JOEL STERNFELD: FIRST PICTURES

Steidl

ISBN: 9783869303093
USD $75.00
| CAD $99

Pub Date: 7/7/2011
Active | Out of stock


Joel Sternfeld: iDubai

JOEL STERNFELD: IDUBAI

Steidl Photography International

ISBN: 9783865219169
USD $40.00
| CAD $54

Pub Date: 5/31/2010
Active | In stock


Joel Sternfeld: When It Changed

JOEL STERNFELD: WHEN IT CHANGED

Steidl

ISBN: 9783865212788
USD $35.00
| CAD $47.5

Pub Date: 4/1/2008
Active | In stock