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Gresham, Oregon
Creator
Joel SternfeldAmerican Photographer · 1944–present
All works by this person →Joel Sternfeld is well known for large-format color photographs that extend the tradition of chronicling roadside America initiated by Walker Evans in the 1930s. Sternfeld's projects have consistently explored the possibility of a collective American identity by documenting ordinary people and places throughout the country. Each project he embarks on is bound by a concept that imbues it with subtl
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- negative June 1979; print November 1991
- Medium
- Chromogenic print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 11ad9ea8-327d-4b35-93c6-5e23fe28771d
View of a U-Haul truck backed into the driveway of a home on a suburban street. Piles of furniture spill out from the back of the U-Haul. A woman sits on a cushion near the truck and breastfeeds an infant cradled in her arms. A silver Chrysler with an Idaho license plate is parked along the street next to the U-Haul. Mt. Hood is visible on the distant horizon.
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