Wednesday, 12 October 2011

"between frontier and the back-gerden" ... deconstructing environmental photographers

Joel Sternfeld














Joel Sternfeld made these pictures of the landscapes many times on different days and at different times; also different weather conditions were photographed. The picture taken is of a railway track on 30th, May 2000-2001.  He was also invited to select the other two artists to follow his project. As guest curator for the series, he selected with them the theme of Landscape with Path and invited Robert Adams and Darren Almond to exhibit their work following his own on old train track in the middle of buildings what was forgotten. It is a straight line, getting smaller. I think the image is more focused in the foreground. Here the two buildings in the front are clearer than the rest of the image.