Getty Museum
Beverly Hills, 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
- negative May 1979; print April 1987
- Medium
- Chromogenic print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- c527cdd0-1f9e-4c68-b5ac-7292756d53bd
View of a man sitting in a hot tub in a backyard patio. He sits with his arms outstretched, looking directly out at the camera. The hot tub is set in a raised, wooden deck abutting a stone patio. Two lounge chairs sit on the deck, one of them with a hot pink towel slung over the arm. A potted lemon tree sits next to the stairs of the deck. A hose stretches across the stone pavers of the patio. Various other potted plants and gardening implements are scattered across the space.
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