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Moenkopi, Arizona
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 August 1982; print March 1987
- Medium
- Chromogenic print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 87e43259-593b-4391-8b55-59874f72e598
A shining white trailer home floats out of place on a sea of rolling desert hills. Joel Sternfeld's large, tripod-mounted view camera gave him a cool, detached viewpoint, letting him describe the scene in relentless detail. His detachment highlights the uneasy relationship between humans and nature that informs many pictures in his *American Prospects* series.
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