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Steidl

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Hardcover, 12 x 10 in. / 108 pgs / 52 color.

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ISBN 9783969992296 TRADE
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Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects

Text by Andy Grundberg.

Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects

Returning to the original 1987 publication’s format, this new edition of Sternfeld’s lyrical portrait of America’s hopes and sorrows includes previously unseen images

Born of a desire to follow the seasons up and down America, and equally to find lyricism in contemporary American life despite all its dark histories, American Prospects has enjoyed a life of acclaim. Its pages are filled with unexpected excitement, despair, tenderness and hope. Its fears are expressed in beauty, its sadnesses in irony. Oddly enough, the society it seems to presage has now come to be; the ideas of this book bespeak our present moment.
Often out of print, this new edition of Joel Sternfeld’s seminal book returns to the format of the original 1987 edition. All of the now classic images within it—alongside a group of never published photographs—examine a once pristine land safeguarded by Indigenous peoples who needed no lessons in stewardship, and a land now occupied by a mix of peoples hoping for salvation within the fraught paths of late capitalism. The result suggests a vast nation whose prospects have much to do with global prospects, a “teenager of the world” unaware of its strengths, filled with idealism and frequent failings. These pictures see all but judge not.
Joel Sternfeld was born in New York City in 1944. He has received numerous awards including two Guggenheim fellowships, a Prix de Rome and the Citibank Photography Award. Sternfeld holds the Nobel Foundation Chair in Art and Cultural History at Sarah Lawrence College. His books published by Steidl include American Prospects (2003), Sweet Earth (2006), Oxbow Archive (2008), First Pictures (2012), Landscape as Longing (2016) with Frank Gohlke, Rome after Rome (2019) and Our Loss (2019).


PRAISE AND REVIEWS

Aesthetica

Fruzsina Vida

The pictures carry even more weight than when they were first seen, as they recount the story of a nation that has long since relied on a misplaced idealism. Here, American Prospects pronounces a society in crisis, as it shakily points to a future that still remains uncertain.

Independent Photographer

Elizabeth Kahn

Beautifully presented in the original 1987 publication’s format, this new edition features previously unseen images which accentuate the somewhat dystopic tone.

Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects

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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
Active | Out of stock


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
Active | In stock


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