{"product_id":"joel-sternfeld-american-prospects-9783969992296","title":"Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReturning to the original 1987 publication's format, this new edition of Sternfeld's lyrical portrait of America's hopes and sorrows includes previously unseen images\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn of a desire to follow the seasons up and down America, and equally to find lyricism in contemporary American life despite all its dark histories, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Prospects\u003c\/i\u003e has enjoyed a life of acclaim. Its pages are filled with unexpected excitement, despair, tenderness and hope. Its fears are expressed in beauty, its sadnesses in irony. Oddly enough, the society it seems to presage has now come to be; the ideas of this book bespeak our present moment.\u003cbr\u003eOften out of print, this new edition of Joel Sternfeld's seminal book returns to the format of the original 1987 edition. All of the now classic images within it--alongside a group of never published photographs--examine a once pristine land safeguarded by Indigenous peoples who needed no lessons in stewardship, and a land now occupied by a mix of peoples hoping for salvation within the fraught paths of late capitalism. The result suggests a vast nation whose prospects have much to do with global prospects, a \"teenager of the world\" unaware of its strengths, filled with idealism and frequent failings. These pictures see all but judge not.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoel Sternfeld\u003c\/b\u003e 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 holds the Nobel Foundation Chair in Art and Cultural History at Sarah Lawrence College. His books published by Steidl include \u003ci\u003eAmerican Prospects\u003c\/i\u003e (2003), \u003ci\u003eSweet Earth\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), \u003ci\u003eOxbow Archive\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), \u003ci\u003eFirst Pictures\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), \u003ci\u003eLandscape as Longing\u003c\/i\u003e (2016) with Frank Gohlke, \u003ci\u003eRome after Rome\u003c\/i\u003e (2019) and \u003ci\u003eOur Loss\u003c\/i\u003e (2019).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Steidl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/12\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783969992296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.10h x 12.20w x 0.70d","brand":"Joel Sternfeld","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52750020575413,"sku":"9783969992296","price":42.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/joel-sternfeld-american-prospects-9783969992296","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}