Yard Sale, Fremont, California

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Yard Sale, Fremont, California

Artist Joel Sternfeld (American, born 1944)

DateJuly 1983

DimensionsOverall: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm);
Image: 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)

Mediumcolor photograph (Ektacolor print)

ClassificationPhotographs

Credit LinePurchased with funds given by an anonymous donor

Object number

1985.9

Not on View

Label TextJoel Sternfeld is one of the pioneers of large format color photography. In the tradition of the Depression-era Works Progress Administration photographers Walker Evans and Ben Shahn, Sternfeld chronicles the American roadside. His photographs, which can be linked to social realism, are factual representations of the American way of life, with an unobtrusive underlying message of his point of view on “the American Character.” Sternfeld uses color aesthetically, but it is never haphazard. His color tells a story and links that story to a time and place. This image could be Anywhere U.S.A.: the subject is a middle-class tract house neighborhood and the easy disposability of possessions in the America of the 1980s. However, the colors unmistakably relate to the dry-summer subtropical climate of Fremont, California.Exhibition HistoryTMA, Jan 22 - June 8, 1999 Buildings Real and Ideal: Nov. 15, 2007 - Jan 27, 2008 Toledo Museum of Art, Looks Good on Paper: Masterworks and Favorites, Oct. 10, 2014-Jan. 11, 2015.