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...pictures into the world for years. He may even win a bit of fame in the process. But it can take a survey show to make his full intentions clear. The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston last week opened a welcome exhibition that does just that for Joel Sternfeld, whose images of Americans contesting with their landscape began appearing in the late 1970s. The exhibit, which runs in Houston through June 7 and later moves on to Detroit and Baltimore, binds Sternfeld's work into a whole. Pictures that were once compelling oddities are now linked into an original...
...Sternfeld takes most of his pictures during the time he can get off from teaching photography, which he does these days at Sarah Lawrence College. Earlier in his career he was known for his 35-mm urban street scenes. In 1978 he received the first of two Guggenheim grants for a series of cross-country travels. He used part of the money to buy a tripod-mounted 8-by-10 view camera that produces the fine detail essential to the new images he was after. When his pictures from those trips began appearing in photography magazines and exhibits, the most...
Strange pictures: deadpan but not flippant, ironic but not campy. They ( used advanced elements of photographic language -- extreme distance from the subject, unemphatic treatment, carefully achieved but understated color -- but to pose what questions? Not until the Houston show, assembled by Curator Anne W. Tucker, were Sternfeld's purposes really clear. The title American Prospects, which applies to both the show and an accompanying volume of his work (Times Books; $40), points to Sternfeld's ambition for his work to be placed in the line of two other great photo essays on the national mood: Walker Evans' American Photographs...
...small (5 ft. 7 in., 150 Ibs.), feisty man who once managed boxers, Eboli apparently was lured to a post-midnight meeting far from his Fort Lee, N.J., home by other mobsters on a pretext of discussing some urgent gang business. His burly chauffeur, Joseph Sternfeld, told police that Eboli was approaching his waiting car after the meeting when a truck sped past, shots erupted from it, and Eboli fell dead. Sternfeld said he did not see the killers. But he did not explain the contradictory fact that there were bloodstains on the inside of Eboli...
Alabama--Julius Sternfeld, 1110 Bell Bldg., Montgomery...