Today I browsed through the pages of a new edition of “American Prospects” by photographer Joel Sternfeld and was really impressed by the stunning color quality of the pictures. Originally published in 1987, the book has been redesigned, and reprinted at a larger and brighter scale. Finally, as the back cover says, “photography and offset printing techniques have caught up with Sternfeld’s eye, and this new edition of American Prospects succeeds in presenting Sternfeld’s most seminal work as it has always meant to be shown.” The series of pictures in American Prospects are the result of several trips throughout America in the late seventies and eighties: “For around eight years, from 1978 to 1987, he made extensive trips in a Volkswagen camper bus, taking his wooden Wista 8×10 camera with standard and slightly wide-angle lenses across the country armed with Kodak Vericolor. Working largely on the interface between town and country, he photographed ordinary scenes and people, discovering the extraordinary within them, making a study of the American character and condition.” (photography.about.com).

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