Press
- Prospecting for Gold: Joel Sternfeld at the Hall FoundationAmy LillySeven Days2025
- Renowned photographer Joel Sternfeld to speak at the Hall Art Foundation on SaturdayEmma StantonVermont Standard2025
- The Dreams of SomePaul LoomisAmerican Suburb X2021
- Residues of a Dream World: The High Line, 2011Michael Cataladi, David Kelley, Hans Kuzmich, Jens Maier-Rothe, Jeannine TangSage Journals2020
- Joel Sternfeld: En tant qu'artiste, votre job est de tuer le père (As an artist your job is to kill the father)Clémentine MercierLibération2020
- Favorite Photobooks of 2019: Our LossFederica ChiocchettiLensCulture2020
- Snapshot: 'Our Loss'Madeleine PollardFinancial Times2019
- 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 DickermanWashington Post2019
- The Seas Are Rising - And So Are TheyRebecca BengalVogue2019
- The Site of an Environmentalist's Deadly Act of ProtestChris WileyThe New Yorker2019
- Joel Sternfeld and His Visual Letter to Joseph PalmerAngie KordicWide Wall2018
- Landscapes Get Wonderfully Complicated at NYU's Grey Art GalleryDeborah KriegerWhite Hot Magazine2018
- Landscapes After Ruskin, Grey Art Gallery, New York - 'distressingly enchanting'Ariella BudickFinancial Times2018
- Joel Sternfeld and dissolving utopiasAlice ZooPYLOT2017
- Joel Sternfeld on his classic American Prospects - and his new workShana Ting LiptonBritish Journal of Photography2017
- Old Photographs That Capture America at a CrossroadsHattie CrisellThe New York Times Style Magazine2017
- The Drifter: Joel Sternfeld on his sly glimpses of wild America - seen from the endless highwaySean O'HaganThe Guardian2017
- Impressive show navigates landscape and the sublimeSebastian SmeeThe Boston Globe2016
- Joel Sternfeld's anti-photojournalistic images of GenoaAntigoni MemouPhotography and Social Movements2015
- Joel Sternfeld's Empty PlacesKate Palmer AlbersUncertain Histories: Accumulation, Inaccessibility, and Doubt in Contemporary Photography2015
- The Open Road: American ProspectsDavid CampanyAperture2014
- Color Rush: American Color Photography from Stieglitz to ShermanAlissa SchapiroAperture2013
- Sunday Salon with Greg Fallis: Joel SternfeldGreg FallisUTATA Tribal Photography2012
- Cultural ConfinesRuby TaylorARTslant2012
- Open Enrollment | Joel Sternfeld's PicturesMichelle JubinArt212012
- Color is the Real World: Joel Sternfeld at Luhring AugustineCarly GaebeArt in America2012
- Photographer Joel Sternfeld's First Pictures, at Luhring Augustine, offers a straight, stark gaze at Americans in the '70sRozalia JovanovicCapital New York2012
- On Photography: Joel Sternfeld: First PicturesWilliam MeyersWall Street Journal2012
- Joel Sternfeld: A Modern Master's First PicturesPhil BlickerTime Magazine2011
- Joel Sternfeld's First Pictures: the opening chapter of a colorful careerSean O'HaganThe Guardian2011
- The Elephant, the Photographer, and the Sheriff2009
- The United Nations of QueensBonnie YochelsonThe New York Times2009
- Photographer Joel Sternfeld: Close EncountersLiz JobeyThe Guardian2008
- Joel Sternfeld - Oxbow ArchiveThe New Yorker2008
- Joel Sternfeld's Oxbow ArchiveChris WileyDaylight Magazine2008
- Oxbow Archive at Luhring AugustineDLK Collection2008
- Joel Sternfeld: Oxbow ArchiveGretel EhrlichAperture2008
- Look Right, Then LeftGeoff DyerThe Guardian2007
- Shelters for the soulTobias JonesTelegraph UK2006
- Sweet Earth: Experimental Utopias in AmericaMelissa RachleffExposure2006
- Photo SynthesisColin WesterbeckThe Los Angeles Times West Magazine2006
- Joel Sternfeld at Luhring AugustineMartha SchwendenerArtforum2005
- Joel Sternfeld at Luhring Augustine: American ProspectsElizabeth SchambelanArtforum2004
- Those Nice, Bright ColorsWilliam MeyersThe New York Sun2004
- Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects at Luhring AugustineVince AlettiThe Village Voice2004
- Serendipity All Over AgainRichard B. WoodwardThe New York Times2004
- Making the Past PresentJason OddyModern Painters2003
- Joel Sternfeld the Photographer's Gallery, London, UKBrian DillonFrieze2003
- America the improbableJoanna PitmanThe Times2003
- Art in Review - Joel SternfeldRoberta SmithThe New York Times2001
- Joel Sternfeld's Utopian VisionsGeoff DyerWorking The Room2001
- Portraits Picked Out of The CrowdRichard B. WoodwardThe New York Times2001
- Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and VideoICPICP with Steidl2001
- Castles Built on Sand: Joel Sternfeld's iDubaiChris WileyFoam Magazine2001
- A Walk on the High LineAdam GopnikThe New Yorker2001
- A Presentation of WhalesBarry Lopez1996
- Haunting Grounds: Joel Sternfeld's Crime SightsA.M. HomesArtforum1994
- A Baedeker to America in the Age of AnxietyVicki GoldbergThe New York Times1994
- The Campagna Romana View by Joel SternfeldCharles HagenThe New York Times1992
- Sternfeld Captures Contemporary America's AmbiguityLarry ThallChicago Tribune1992
- Photography: Lovelorn Tracts, Minced WildernessRichard LacayoTime Magazine1987
- In Search of AmericaNew York Times Magazine1987
- The New Color: Joel SternfeldColin WesterbeckArtforum1982
- The Incredible CommonplaceAndy GrundbergThe New York Times1981
- Nags Head, North Carolina, June 1st, 1906, 73 DegreesAperture