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Sternfeld, Joel (Photographer); Frazier, Ian & Nickel, Douglas R. (Contributors) : Stranger Passing

Bulfinch Press, New York City, NY, 2001

ISBN 0821227521

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. Unpaginated. Exhibition Monograph. One of the most important and most beautiful photography books of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Lawrence Wolfson Design New York: Oversize-volume format. The book weighs 3 pounds. Gray cloth boards with silver titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Joel Sternfeld. Essays by Ian Frazier and Douglas R. Nickel. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by Amilcare Pizzi SPA in Milan, Italy to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with black titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Published on the occasion of the major new exhibition of the photographer's work in 2001. Presents Joel Sternfeld's "Stranger Passing". The turn-of-the-century sequel to Sternfeld's ground-breaking "American Prospects". A fresh and riveting view of contemporary American society, Sternfeld turns his exacting eye to American faces, social classes, character types and stereotypes. "Sternfeld devotes a remarkable volume to sixty hard-edged studies of individuals from Manhattan to Malibu to Austin to Appalachia, in snapshots and portraits that are by turns comic, disturbing, angry, pathetic, and silly" (Publishers Weekly). Robert Frank and William Eggleston come to mind right away, and their inescapable spirit illuminates (rather than dims) Sternfeld's vision. The cover image in particular is an homage to William Eggleston's famous portrait of a young supermarket worker. An absolute "must-have" title for Joel Sternfeld collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Joel Sternfeld. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary photography classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. 60 color plates. Joel Sternfeld's "American Prospects" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the finest American photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JOEL STERNFELD TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0821227521.

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