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Warren Avenue at 23rd Street, Detroit, Michigan
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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 October 1993; print 1994
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- Chromogenic print
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- American
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Malice Green's death in 1992 after a police beating at this Detroit street corner fueled ongoing public outrage in the United States over police brutality. In 1993 Joel Sternfeld began a photographic series documenting the locations of such nationally publicized crimes, sometimes years after they had occurred. Building on the power of memory in the experience of landscape, Sternfeld's series recalls the work of Civil War photographers who returned, well after the war, to the sites of important battles. Cleared of bodies and other visual evidence, both groups of photographs mix elements of landscape, memorial, and document.
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