Joel Sternfeld
American Prospects
Until 21 January 2024
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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.
American Prospects is part of a major donation to the ALBERTINA Museum by the artist himself, and the present exhibition presents a first-ever survey of these donated works.
On view from 27 September 2023 until 21 January 2024 at the ALBERTINA Museum.
ARTIST TALK | JOEL STERNFELD
Journalist Andrea Schurian in conversation with Joel Sternfeld.
Friday, 13 October | 6.30 p.m.
Hall of the Muses at the ALBERTINA Museum
Language: English
Admission free | No museum ticket required
Registration (in German)
EXHIBITION PROGRAM
Public guided tours (in German)
Learn about highlights and backgrounds of the exhibition in a one-hour guided tour of the exhibition.
Dates & tickets
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Joel Sternfeld: Wet ‘n Wild Aquatic Theme Park, Orlando, Florida aus der Serie: American Prospects, September 1980
107 x 133 cm Pigment Print
(Albertina, Wien – Schenkung Joel Sternfeld © Joel Sternfeld)
Joel Sternfeld: McLean, Virginia, aus der Serie: American Prospects, December 1978
107 x 133 cm Pigment Print
(Albertina, Wien – Schenkung Joel Sternfeld © Joel Sternfeld)
Joel Sternfeld: Exhausted Renegade Elephant, Woodland, Washington, aus der Serie: American Prospects, June 1979
107 x 133 cm Pigment Print
(Albertina, Wien – Schenkung Joel Sternfeld © Joel Sternfeld)
Joel Sternfeld: Domestic Workers Waiting for the Bus, Atlanta, Georgia, aus der Serie: American Prospects, April 1983
107 x 133 cm Pigment Print
(Albertina, Wien – Schenkung Joel Sternfeld © Joel Sternfeld)
Joel Sternfeld: The Space Shuttle Columbia lands at Kelly Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas, aus der Serie: American Prospects, March 1979
107 x 133 cm Pigment Print
(Albertina, Wien – Schenkung Joel Sternfeld © Joel Sternfeld)
107 x 133 cm, Pigment Print (Albertina, Wien – Schenkung Joel Sternfeld © Joel Sternfeld)
107 x 133 cm, Pigment Print (Albertina, Wien – Schenkung Joel Sternfeld © Joel Sternfeld)
107 x 133 cm, Pigment Print (Albertina, Wien – Schenkung Joel Sternfeld © Joel Sternfeld)
107 x 133 cm, Pigment Print (Albertina, Wien – Schenkung Joel Sternfeld © Joel Sternfeld)
107 x 133 cm, Pigment Print (Albertina, Wien – Schenkung Joel Sternfeld © Joel Sternfeld)