Press

Prospecting for Gold: Joel Sternfeld at the Hall Foundation
Amy Lilly
Seven Days
2025
Renowned photographer Joel Sternfeld to speak at the Hall Art Foundation on Saturday
Emma Stanton
Vermont Standard
2025
The Dreams of Some
Paul Loomis
American Suburb X
2021
Residues of a Dream World: The High Line, 2011
Michael Cataladi, David Kelley, Hans Kuzmich, Jens Maier-Rothe, Jeannine Tang
Sage Journals
2020
Joel Sternfeld: En tant qu'artiste, votre job est de tuer le père (As an artist your job is to kill the father)
Clémentine Mercier
Libération
2020
Favorite Photobooks of 2019: Our Loss
Federica Chiocchetti
LensCulture
2020
Snapshot: 'Our Loss'
Madeleine Pollard
Financial Times
2019
Despairing for the planet, a man took his own life in a Brooklyn park. This photographer honored his memory one day at a time.
Joel Sternfeld, Kenneth Dickerman
Washington Post
2019
The Seas Are Rising - And So Are They
Rebecca Bengal
Vogue
2019
The Site of an Environmentalist's Deadly Act of Protest
Chris Wiley
The New Yorker
2019
Joel Sternfeld and His Visual Letter to Joseph Palmer
Angie Kordic
Wide Wall
2018
Landscapes Get Wonderfully Complicated at NYU's Grey Art Gallery
Deborah Krieger
White Hot Magazine
2018
Landscapes After Ruskin, Grey Art Gallery, New York - 'distressingly enchanting'
Ariella Budick
Financial Times
2018
Joel Sternfeld and dissolving utopias
Alice Zoo
PYLOT
2017
Joel Sternfeld on his classic American Prospects - and his new work
Shana Ting Lipton
British Journal of Photography
2017
Old Photographs That Capture America at a Crossroads
Hattie Crisell
The New York Times Style Magazine
2017
The Drifter: Joel Sternfeld on his sly glimpses of wild America - seen from the endless highway
Sean O'Hagan
The Guardian
2017
Impressive show navigates landscape and the sublime
Sebastian Smee
The Boston Globe
2016
Joel Sternfeld's anti-photojournalistic images of Genoa
Antigoni Memou
Photography and Social Movements
2015
Joel Sternfeld's Empty Places
Kate Palmer Albers
Uncertain Histories: Accumulation, Inaccessibility, and Doubt in Contemporary Photography
2015
The Open Road: American Prospects
David Campany
Aperture
2014
Color Rush: American Color Photography from Stieglitz to Sherman
Alissa Schapiro
Aperture
2013
Sunday Salon with Greg Fallis: Joel Sternfeld
Greg Fallis
UTATA Tribal Photography
2012
Cultural Confines
Ruby Taylor
ARTslant
2012
Open Enrollment | Joel Sternfeld's Pictures
Michelle Jubin
Art21
2012
Color is the Real World: Joel Sternfeld at Luhring Augustine
Carly Gaebe
Art in America
2012
Photographer Joel Sternfeld's First Pictures, at Luhring Augustine, offers a straight, stark gaze at Americans in the '70s
Rozalia Jovanovic
Capital New York
2012
On Photography: Joel Sternfeld: First Pictures
William Meyers
Wall Street Journal
2012
Joel Sternfeld: A Modern Master's First Pictures
Phil Blicker
Time Magazine
2011
Joel Sternfeld's First Pictures: the opening chapter of a colorful career
Sean O'Hagan
The Guardian
2011
The Elephant, the Photographer, and the Sheriff
2009
The United Nations of Queens
Bonnie Yochelson
The New York Times
2009
Photographer Joel Sternfeld: Close Encounters
Liz Jobey
The Guardian
2008
Joel Sternfeld - Oxbow Archive
The New Yorker
2008
Joel Sternfeld's Oxbow Archive
Chris Wiley
Daylight Magazine
2008
Oxbow Archive at Luhring Augustine
DLK Collection
2008
Joel Sternfeld: Oxbow Archive
Gretel Ehrlich
Aperture
2008
Look Right, Then Left
Geoff Dyer
The Guardian
2007
Shelters for the soul
Tobias Jones
Telegraph UK
2006
Sweet Earth: Experimental Utopias in America
Melissa Rachleff
Exposure
2006
Photo Synthesis
Colin Westerbeck
The Los Angeles Times West Magazine
2006
Joel Sternfeld at Luhring Augustine
Martha Schwendener
Artforum
2005
Joel Sternfeld at Luhring Augustine: American Prospects
Elizabeth Schambelan
Artforum
2004
Those Nice, Bright Colors
William Meyers
The New York Sun
2004
Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects at Luhring Augustine
Vince Aletti
The Village Voice
2004
Serendipity All Over Again
Richard B. Woodward
The New York Times
2004
Making the Past Present
Jason Oddy
Modern Painters
2003
Joel Sternfeld the Photographer's Gallery, London, UK
Brian Dillon
Frieze
2003
America the improbable
Joanna Pitman
The Times
2003
Art in Review - Joel Sternfeld
Roberta Smith
The New York Times
2001
Joel Sternfeld's Utopian Visions
Geoff Dyer
Working The Room
2001
Portraits Picked Out of The Crowd
Richard B. Woodward
The New York Times
2001
Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video
ICP
ICP with Steidl
2001
Castles Built on Sand: Joel Sternfeld's iDubai
Chris Wiley
Foam Magazine
2001
A Walk on the High Line
Adam Gopnik
The New Yorker
2001
A Presentation of Whales
Barry Lopez
1996
Haunting Grounds: Joel Sternfeld's Crime Sights
A.M. Homes
Artforum
1994
A Baedeker to America in the Age of Anxiety
Vicki Goldberg
The New York Times
1994
The Campagna Romana View by Joel Sternfeld
Charles Hagen
The New York Times
1992
Sternfeld Captures Contemporary America's Ambiguity
Larry Thall
Chicago Tribune
1992
Photography: Lovelorn Tracts, Minced Wilderness
Richard Lacayo
Time Magazine
1987
In Search of America
New York Times Magazine
1987
The New Color: Joel Sternfeld
Colin Westerbeck
Artforum
1982
The Incredible Commonplace
Andy Grundberg
The New York Times
1981
Nags Head, North Carolina, June 1st, 1906, 73 Degrees
Aperture