Coeburn, Virginia

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Coeburn, Virginia

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Joel Sternfeld

American Photographer · 1944–present

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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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Date
April 1981
Medium
Chromogenic print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
458be077-26e6-4850-9089-5cae2743d9e2

View of railcars carrying coal along a stretch of tracks in Coeburn, Virginia. Several small white houses dot the green grass on the opposite side of the tracks. A rolling hill, covered with blooming pink trees, presides over the landscape.

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