Joel Sternfeld: Oxbow Archive
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (533 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3958290205 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Beautiful" according to K. Winton. Joel Sternfeld's monograph book Oxbow Archive embodies exactly what I want to see in photography. It was like Joel Sternfeld rummaged through my photographic thoughts and came up with the perfect collection of photographs. Sternfeld has created these simple, tranquil, cloudy, cold landscapes of the east coast. There are. N. J. Hill said Best photo book of "Best photo book of 2008." according to N. J. Hill. This is a bit of departure form Sternfeld's other landscape work. This book explores landscape without a sense of irony or cleverness, and through that sincerity, I became emotionally engaged in this place he is documenting. Beautiful use of lightlove this book. 008.. This is a bit of departure form Sternfeld's other landscape work. This book explores landscape without a sense of irony or cleverness, and through that sincerity, I became emotionally engaged in this place he is documenting. Beautiful use of lightlove this book. Borrowed ideas My immediate connection on looking at this was of the landscape work of British Photographer Jem Southam.It seems Mr Sternfeld was not sure what to do with this piece of territory, and found his answer in Mr Southam's intense focus on working & reworking a modest piece of ground (see Jem Southam's book 'Painters Pool')
Its flatness offers an eloquent emptiness, as well as a vessel for the true subject of this work--the effects of human consumption upon the natural world. By 2006, the oxbow in the river was crossed by an interstate highway and the destructive effects of progress which Cole had so feared were making themselves apparent globally as climate change. This volume collects 77 of the quietly haunting photographs that Sternfeld made over the next year-and-a-half. Nearly 200 years later, Joel Sternfeld walked into the field depicted in the lower right quadrant of Cole's painting--which he had first photographed in 1978 while traveling for his seminal