{"product_id":"joel-sternfeld-nags-head-9783969993187","title":"Joel Sternfeld: Nags Head","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSternfeld's candid images of an Outer Banks summer, which went on to inform his seminal work \u003ci\u003eAmerican Prospects\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 1975, facing surgery with the potential of paralysis, a young Joel Sternfeld went off in search of a last idyll--and found it in Nags Head, on North Carolina's Outer Banks. From June to August he captured the beach town floating in time, a sense of spatial and temporal fluidity. Sternfeld's images show beachgoers of all ages enjoying scenes of leisure and partying in what became his first body of work addressing a season.\u003cbr\u003eYet this summer sojourn was tragically broken by the news of the death of his brother; Sternfeld returned to New York, never to go back to Nags Head. Eventually he began working again and one day ventured to Rockaway Beach, Queens. Here he took a picture in which \"all at once the ugly scene appeared beautiful to me\" the hues of sand, apartments and sky fuse into a cohesive whole. This photo, with its conceptual roots in Nags Head, would lead to the color structures of Sternfeld's magnum opus \u003ci\u003eAmerican Prospects\u003c\/i\u003e, his ambitious realization of what he had always wanted to do: follow the seasons across America.\u003cbr\u003eA major figure in the photography world for nearly five decades, \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.\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 06\/25\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783969993187\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96","brand":"Joel Sternfeld","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44145849991349,"sku":"9783969993187","price":46.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_3727d3ce-c12c-4a0a-aa3a-ef8b03cf6489.jpg?v=1715698388","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/joel-sternfeld-nags-head-9783969993187","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}