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Canyon Country California
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
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- June 1983
- Medium
- Chromogenic print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 16339adb-e6be-408b-9382-a338ae64a289
Full-length portrait of a father and his daughter sitting on a short brick retaining wall. The father has one arm wrapped around his daughter and the other resting on his knee, holding a cigar in his hand. He looks directly into the camera, while his daughter looks off towards image left. Both of them rest their bare feet in a patch of dirt. A subdivision is visible in the background.
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