Joel Sternfeld at Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
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The legendary series American Prospects by the American photographer at the Albertina Museum, Vienna.
Joel Sternfeld numbers among the most important protagonists of the New Color Photography movement, which discovered color for art photography in the 1970s.
Sternfeld has spent years traveling around the United States as a critical observer, documenting the country and its inhabitants in all their idiosyncrasies and contradictions.
His grandiose series American Prospects (1978–86) focuses on how human beings relate to the American landscape—a landscape they’ve helped to shape. In addition to exposing a natural world subject to economic exploitation and threatened by accumulating ecological damage, the frequently whimsical everyday scenes captured by Sternfeld in this series also permit inferences as to the sociopolitical conditions of that era.
On view from 27 September 2023 until 28 April 2024 at the ALBERTINA Museum.
Albertina Museum
Albertinaplatz 1
A 1010 Wien