Joel Sternfeld
American Photographer · 1944–
9 works on LinkedCulture
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
Works

4421 Gibson Avenue, St. Louis, MO.
Getty Museum · negative August 1993; print September 1995

A Homeless man with his bedding, New York City, July 1995
Getty Museum · negative July 1994; print December 1996

Central Park, North of the Obelisk, Behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Getty Museum · May 1993
![[Girl with Basketball]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/ba39d9f8-c35e-46ae-a6dd-e0f8a5a452bb/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Girl with Basketball]
Getty Museum · November 11, 1993

Moenkopi, Arizona
Getty Museum · negative August 1982; print March 1987

Money Mississippi, June 1994
Getty Museum · negative June 1994; print March 1995

Page, Arizona, August 1982 (Lone Horse)
Getty Museum · negative August 1982; print August 1995

The Northwest Corner of Florence and Normandie Avenues, Los Angeles, California, October 1993
Getty Museum · negative October 1993; print 2005

Warren Avenue at 23rd Street, Detroit, Michigan
Getty Museum · negative October 1993; print 1994