Nags Head

Joel Sternfeld

BOO 297 N
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CONDITION & NOTES
New

TYPE PUBLICATION YEAR
Hardcover

2024

EDITION LANGUAGE
First

English

PUBLISHER DIMENSIONS
Steidl 28.5 x 25 x 2 cm
CONDITION
New

TYPE
Hardcover

PUBLICATION YEAR
2024

EDITION
First

LANGUAGE
English

PUBLISHER
Steidl

DIMENSIONS
28.5 x 25 x 2 cm

ABOUT

Joel Sternfeld entwines two personal stories in this book that together reveal the roots and evolution of color theory in his work over the past five decades. In the summer of 1975, facing surgery with a risk of paralysis, Sternfeld went in search of a last idyll—and found it in Nags Head on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. From June to August he photographed the seaside town floating in time, capturing a dreamlike sense of solace. Sternfeld’s images show beachgoers of all ages in various scenes of leisure and recreation in this, his first body of work addressing a season. At the time, Sternfeld was already committed to color as the basis of photographic expression and fascinated by Josef Albers’ Interaction of Color: “Any time that I saw a color phenomenon in the landscape that somehow coincided with an Albers-type exercise in the perceptual properties of color, I made a photograph.”