American Prospects

Oblong 4to (255 x 303 mm), pp.128. 55 colour photographs, texts by Andy Grundberg and Anne Wilkes Tucker, design by Elissa Ichiyasu and Mark LaRiviere. Original grey cloth, spine lettered in silver, title to upper side in blind. Original colour photo-illustrated dust-jacket; light shelf-wear, shallow diagonal crease and light stain to lower panel.\n\nFirst edition. Sternfeld travelled across America on and off for eight years with a large-format camera. He has written of this series: ‘In the spring of 1978 I received a Guggenheim Fellowship to continue a series of street photographs. But the award and the possibilities it created encouraged a change in my work… The photographs I made represent the efforts of someone who grew up with a vision of classical regional America and the order it seemed to contain, to find beauty and harmony in an increasingly uniform, technological and disturbing America’ (Johnson 258).\n\nRoth, A., The Book of 101 Books, pp.260-1; Johnson, B., Photography Speaks; Roth, A. et al. Open Book, pp.338-9; Parr, M. and Badger, G., The Photobook: A History Vol.II, pp.34-5.