Joel Sternfeld
Joel Sternfeld
Joel Sternfeldis a fine-art color photographer noted for his large-format documentary pictures of the United States and helping establish color photography as a respected artistic medium. He has many works in the permanent collections of the MOMA in New York City and the Getty Center in Los Angeles. He has influenced a generation of color photographers, including Andreas Gursky, who borrows many of Sternfeld's techniques and approaches...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth30 June 1944
CountryUnited States of America
No one can say how long the process of human extinction might take, but as it proceeds, the same global order will prevail that always prevails: rich nations will find ways to protect themselves and make themselves comfortable, while the poor nations and the poor people of the planet will suffer.
I grew up in Belle Harbor, which is in New York City, but it has the most powerful sense of nature and seasons. It wasn't even the beach and the water. I just dreamt about everything that had to do with nature. I read about Thoreau.
Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.
Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.
The digital print is becoming the look of our time, and it makes the C-print start to look like a tintype.