About this artwork
Between 1979 and 1983 Joel Sternfeld traveled across the United States, making photographs with a large-format camera mounted on a tripod for a series called American Prospects. His wandering, on-the-road approach to picturing the American landscape coupled a sense of searching with being in the right place at the right time. Here Sternfeld transformed an elephant’s escape from a zoo into an image that reads like a movie still with an elevated vantage point and a wide frame that shows the bystanders and sheriff’s car.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Photography and Media
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Artist
- Joel Sternfeld
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Title
- Exhausted Renegade Elephant, Woodland, Washington, from the series "American Prospects"
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- Made 1979
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Medium
- Chromogenic print
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Dimensions
- Image: 40.5 × 50.9 cm (16 × 20 1/16 in.); Paper: 50.7 × 60.9 cm (20 × 24 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Ralph and Nancy Segall
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Reference Number
- 1993.416
Extended information about this artwork
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