G R E E N G O L D  F I L M

I think that Joel Sternfeld is my favorite photographer, although I may be biased because we share a first name.  Here's how Richard B. Woodward describes Sternfeld:

Among American documentary photographers working in large-format color, the pictures set a standard for clarity, sociological breadth and sardonic humor. But what's more surprising is the imprint they seem to have made on photographers from the other camp. It is hard to look at ''American Prospect'' and not be reminded of work by Gregory Crewdson and Jeff Wall, both of whom go to elaborate lengths to fabricate images. Their tableaus, which quote from history painting and cinema, advertising and photography, use actors and studio lighting in hopes of creating the same narrative tension and mystery that Mr. Sternfeld has captured by being in the right place at the right time.

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