
Stranger Passing
Stranger Passing
Joel Sternfeld(Author)
Steidl (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published in August 2012
Book
132 pages
978-3-86930-499-1 (ISBN)
Description
Over a period of fifteen years Joel Sternfeld travelled across America and took portrait photographs that form in Douglas
R. Nickel's words an "intelligent, unscientific, interpretive sampling of what Americans looked like at the century's end."
Unlike historical portraits which represent significant people in staged surroundings, Sternfeld's subjects are uncannily
"normal": a banker having an evening meal, a teenager collecting shopping carts in a parking lot, a homeless man
holding his bedding. Using August Sander's classic photograph of three peasants on their way to a dance as a starting
point, Sternfeld employed a conceptual strategy that amounts to a new theory of the portrait, which might be termed
"The Circumstantial Portrait". What happens when we encounter the other in the mist of a circumstance? What presumptions,
if any, are valid? What, if anything, can be known of the other from a photographic portrait?
A major figure in the photography world, Joel Sternfeld was born in New York City in 1944. He has received numerous
awards including two Guggenheim fellowships, a Prix de Rome and the Citibank Photography Award. Sternfeld's books
published by Steidl include American Prospects (2003), Sweet Earth (2006), Oxbow Archive (2008), First Pictures
(2011) and On This Site (2012).
R. Nickel's words an "intelligent, unscientific, interpretive sampling of what Americans looked like at the century's end."
Unlike historical portraits which represent significant people in staged surroundings, Sternfeld's subjects are uncannily
"normal": a banker having an evening meal, a teenager collecting shopping carts in a parking lot, a homeless man
holding his bedding. Using August Sander's classic photograph of three peasants on their way to a dance as a starting
point, Sternfeld employed a conceptual strategy that amounts to a new theory of the portrait, which might be termed
"The Circumstantial Portrait". What happens when we encounter the other in the mist of a circumstance? What presumptions,
if any, are valid? What, if anything, can be known of the other from a photographic portrait?
A major figure in the photography world, Joel Sternfeld was born in New York City in 1944. He has received numerous
awards including two Guggenheim fellowships, a Prix de Rome and the Citibank Photography Award. Sternfeld's books
published by Steidl include American Prospects (2003), Sweet Earth (2006), Oxbow Archive (2008), First Pictures
(2011) and On This Site (2012).
More details
Edition
2., Aufl.
Language
English
Place of publication
Gottingen
Germany
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Illustrated in colour throughout
Dimensions
Height: 29 cm
Width: 34 cm
Weight
1740 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-86930-499-1 (9783869304991)
Schweitzer Classification