"AMERICAN PROSPECTS" par Joel STERNFELD. Editions Times Books en association avec The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. 1987. Edition Originale. in-4 format oblong, couverture toilée grise titre sous jaquette illustrée couleurs en état d’usage (décoloration sur la partie droite & légère déchirures de la jaquette). Non paginé. Texte en anglais, introduction de Andy GRUNDBERG, postface de Anne W. TUCKER. Illustré de 55 reproductions photographiques couleurs pleine page. "American Prospects is a startling visual chronicle. Over a period of eight years, Joel Sternfeld criss-cross this country in a Volkswagen camper and brought back photographs that surprise us with their wit and discovery. In these brilliant pictures, accompanied by two essays…the cumulative meaning of Sternfeld’s work is revealed. Sternfeld shows us a landscape that is both mundane and exalted. A fireman shops for pumpkins as a house burns down ; a basketball hoop stands abandoned near the Grand Canyon, : the photographs of American Prospects are at once familiar and disconcerning. In picture of deserted buildings and declining mill towns, Sternfeld points out the certainly of change with his own discerning eye…" Ref LPB0035