Stranger Passing

Stranger Passing by Joel Sternfeld 

First Edition, Published by Bulfinch 2001, large format hardback in fine condition, jacket in remnovable protective sleeve.

 

About

Over a period of fifteen years Joel Sternfeld travelled across America and took portrait photographs that form in Douglas R. Nickel’s words an “intelligent, unscientific, interpretive sampling of what Americans looked like at the century’s end.” Unlike historical portraits which represent significant people in staged surroundings, Sternfeld’s subjects are uncannily “normal”: a banker having an evening meal, a teenager collecting shopping carts in a parking lot, a homeless man holding his bedding.

His concern with the social face of America is evident in Stranger Passing, a travelogue of sorts, a detached, understated but compelling portrait of the people with whom he has come into contact during his itinerant journeys.