SIGNED; Joel Sternfeld - First pictures (SUPER FRESH COPY) - 2011

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Wonderful photobook with the very first pictures by the legendary American photographer Joel Sternfeld -
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COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT ITS VERY BEST.

Signed by the artist.
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EXCELLENT, VERY FRESH CONDITION (only opened once for the signature).

Joel Sternfeld is one of the most influential colour photographers worldwide and became famous through his series "American Prospects" (Martin Parr, The Photobook, vol 2, page 35).

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Steidl, Gottingen. 2011. First edition, first printing.

Clothbound hardcover with a tipped-in photo. 295 x 245 cm. 320 pages. 140 colour plates. Photos: Joel Sternfeld. Text in English.

Condition:
Inside new, mint, unread. Outside very fresh; perfect front and spine, on the rear side two tiny stains. Overall very fine to near perfect, near mint condition.

Fantastic photobook by Joel Sternfeld - in wonderful fresh condition.

"This is the first book of Sternfeld's largely unseen early colour photographs. In 1969 Sternfeld began working with a 35 mm camera and Kodachrome film, and First Pictures contains works from this time until 1980. Here Sternfeld develops traits that appear in his mature work: irony, a politicised view of America, concern for the social condition. But there are also pictures that bear little relation to his later work: colour arrangements that parallel those of Eggleston, as well as street photography which Sternfeld ceased making in 1976." (from the publisher)