
Acorn Community, Mineral, Virginia, from the series "Sweet Earth: Experimental Utopias in America"
Catalogue
- Year
- 2004
- Medium
- Chromogenic print
- Dimensions
- Image: 26.5 × 33.2 cm (10 7/16 × 13 1/8 in.); Paper: 27.9 × 35.5 cm (11 × 14 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Joel Sternfeld
Artist

Photography
Joel Sternfeld is an American photographer known for large-format color photographs of American landscapes and vernacular architecture. Working primarily in the 1970s and 1980s, he employed saturated chromogenic color film to document the texture and typography of built and natural environments across the United States. His deadpan formal approach and precise compositional control transform ordinary suburban and industrial scenes into richly chromatic studies of postwar American spatial culture. Sternfeld's work challenged the documentary photography establishment's then-dominant preference for black-and-white practice.
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- Joel Sternfeld
- Year
- 2004
- Medium
- Chromogenic print
- Dimensions
- Image: 26.5 × 33.2 cm (10 7/16 × 13 1/8 in.); Paper: 27.9 × 35.5 cm (11 × 14 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-2004-097415
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified





