{"product_id":"joel-sternfeld-nags-head-9783969993187","title":"Joel Sternfeld: Nags Head","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"In the good or successful colour photograph, the definition or the meaning of the picture will somehow arise through the use of colour.\" - Joel Sternfeld\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJoel Sternfeld entwines two personal stories in this book that together reveal the roots and evolution of colour theory in his work over the past five decades.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 1975, facing surgery with a risk of paralysis, Sternfeld went in search of a last idyll and found it in Nags Head on North Carolina's Outer Banks. From June to August he photographed the seaside town floating in time, capturing a dreamlike sense of solace. Sternfeld's images show beachgoers of all ages in various scenes of leisure and recreation in this, his first body of work addressing a season.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt the time, Sternfeld was already committed to colour as the basis of photographic expression and fascinated by Josef Albers' \u003cem\u003eInteraction of Color\u003c\/em\u003e: \"Any time that I saw a colour phenomenon in the landscape that somehow coincided with an Albers-type exercise in the perceptual properties of colour, I made a photograph.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYet this summer sojourn was tragically broken by the death of Sternfeld's brother; the photographer returned to New York, never to go back to Nags Head.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEventually Sternfeld resumed working and one day headed to Rockaway Beach, Queens. Here he took a picture in which \"All at once the ugly scene appeared beautiful to me\" - the hues of sand, apartments, and sky fused into a cohesive whole: finally, content had been transcended through colour. This photo, made in despair and with its perceptual foundation in the Nags Head series, would lead, a few years later, to the colour structures of Sternfeld's magnum opus \u003cem\u003eAmerican Prospects\u003c\/em\u003e, his ambitious realisation of what he had always wanted to do: follow the seasons across America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47463357481196,"sku":"9783969993187","price":110.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783969993187-joel-sternfeld-nags-head.jpg?v=1775031834","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/joel-sternfeld-nags-head-9783969993187","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}