Search Results: american prospects by joel sternfeld

Chronicle Books, 1994-03-01. 2nd ed. paperback. Used: Good.

San Francisco, CA: Friends of Photography in association with Chronicle Books, 1994. First edition thus. Softcover. Sternfeld's now classic first monograph with an introduction and a new preface by Andy Grundberg and an afterword by Anne W. Tucker. A powerful selection of color photographs. A tight very good copy in French style wrappers with some bumping to the top and bottom corners. (Parr & Badger v2, 34-35; Roth 260-261).

Chronicle Books, 1994-03-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Times Books, 1987. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 2nd printing. Covers sunned along edges. Dust jacket edgeworn.

Chronicle Books, 1994. Soft cover. Very good/No jacket. First paperback printing. Cover is lightly rubbed and worn along edges. Binding is tight and inside is clean and unmarked.

New York: D.A.P., 2003. First Thus . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. Folio (140 pages, 60 full-color plates). As-new, in dust jacket. Seminal photography book of the Seventies in a reissue that finally does it justice.

New York: D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers Inc, 2003. First edition thus. Large oblong hardcover. A larger format version of Sternfeld's classic first monograph. Features essays by Kerry Brougher, Andy Grundberg, and Anne W. Tucker. A powerful selection of color photographs. A clean and tight very near fine copy in cloth boards and in a very near fine dust jacket. (The original edition was included in both Parr & Badger v2, 34-35 and Roth 260-261).

Times Books, 1987-05-12. hardcover. Like New. 12x10x0. Looks unread with just a touch of shelf wear First edition, second printing. oversized and overweight. B17 Please email for photos.

USA: Distributed Art Publishers Inc, 2004. Very good, oversized, hard cover, with unclipped dust jacket. Light shelf and handling wear to DJ, incl. minor creasing and wear to edges and corners, and light tanning. Pages tightly bound, content in 'as unread' condition. CN. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Used.

New York: D.A.P./ Distributed Art Publishers, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. New in publisher's shrink wrap. Small Oblong Folio. 140pp. Original hardcover in photo-illustrated dustjacket, black lettering on spine. "Originally published in 1987, Joel Sternfeld's now-classic view of America is here remastered, redesigned and reprinted at a larger, brighter, truer scale. Finally, photography and offset printing techniques have caught up with Sternfeld's eye, and this new edition of American Prospects succeeds in presenting Sternfeld's most seminal work as it has always meant to be shown. A specially-commissioned essay by Kerry Brougher, Chief Curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, considers the historical context in which Sternfeld was working and the pivotal role that American Prospects has played in the course of contemporary filmmaking and art photography. In American Prospects, a fireman shops for a pumpkin while a house burns in the background; a group of motorcyclists stop at… Read More

New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 2004. First edition thus. A near-fine copy. 11.75 x 14.5 inches. 140 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. With a warm inscription from the photographer to a curator. With essays by Kerry Brougher, Andy Grundberg and Anne W. Tucker. "Originally published in 1987, Joel Sternfeld's now-classic view of America is here remastered, redesigned and reprinted at a larger, brighter, truer scale. Finally, photography and offset printing techniques have caught up with Sternfeld's eye, and this new edition of American Prospects succeeds in presenting Sternfeld's most seminal work as it has always meant to be shown. A specially-commissioned essay by Kerry Brougher, Chief Curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, considers the historical context in which Sternfeld was working and the pivotal role that American Prospects has played in the course of contemporary filmmaking and art photography. In American Prospects, a fireman… Read More

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New York: Times Books, 1987. First edition and first printing. Oblong hardcover. Sternfeld's first monograph. Features an introduction by Andy Grundberg and an afterword by Anne W. Tucker. A powerful selection of 55 color photographs. A fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket with a tiny surface nick to the front panel at the spine and a small tear to the base of the spine but with no fading whatsoever. A very nice copy of this classic. (Parr & Badger v2, 34-35; Roth 260-261).

Times Books. Used - Very Good. 1987. 1st Large oblong 4to. Cloth, dj., illus. Printed and bound by Amilcare Pizzi, Milan. First edition. Dj rubbed at edges and worn at corners, otherwise a very nice, fresh copy.. (Subject: Photography.)

Times Books, 1987-05-12. Hardcover. Like New. 13x10x1. Sternfeld inscribed (title page) to former owner publisher Martin Edelston oblong format hardcover in jacket in as new condition. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos.

Houston: TimesBooks and Houston Museum of Fine Arts, 1987. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/near fine. First edition. The first monograph by Sternfeld. An immediate sensation and a Roth 101 selection. Near fine condition in oblong cloth binding in near fine unclipped dustwrapper.

Times Books, 1987. First edition. Fine and bright in near fine color pictorial dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. Over a period of eight years, Joel Sternfeld crisscrossed this country in a Volkswagen camper and brought back photographs to surprise us with their wit and discovery. Now regarded as a masterpiece. Bold color photographic layout throughout. Quite handsome all around

New York / Houston: Times Books / The Museum of Fine Arts, 1987. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Signed by Joel Sternfeld and warmly inscribed to a former owner in 1988. Bound in publisher's grey cloth over boards, with spine lettered in silver. Near Fine with heavily bumped corners. In a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing and bumped corners. A lovely copy, signed by the photographer.

1987. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). FIRST. A FINE FIRST IN NEAR FINE DJ. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.

Houston: Times Books, 1987. Joel Sternfeld’s work is considered a classic amongst photography, having permanently enhanced the face of color photography. "American Prospects is less a composed sequence than a series of deceptively classical compositions. But many of the pictures contain wild juxtapositions: firefighters extinguish a blaze while one of their number shops nonchalantly for pumpkins matching the flames; a basketball hoop stands sentry in a new suburban dead end; pretty flowers shimmer alongside a sports car in the same wild pink. The idealized semirural life is really a world of uncanny disquiet, perfectly suited to the still and mute image" (Aperture Magazine). Roth 101; Parr & Badger; The Photobook: A History Vol.II,