Joel Sternfeld is a seminal contemporary American artist known for his large-format color photographs of American towns and cities. Influenced by the roadside photography of Walker Evans, Sternfeld’s projects document people and places with an exacting sense of color that visually rhymes with the subject matter, as seen in his seminal series American Prospects (1987). “No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium,” he reflected. “It is the photographer's job to get this medium to say what you need it to say.” Born on June 30, 1944 in New York, NY, he received his BA in visual art from Dartmouth College in 1965. Sternfeld began producing color photographs...