Joel Sternfeld at Pier 24 tomorrow

Pier 24 Photography is excited to announce an upcoming lecture by photographer Joel Sternfeld presented at California College of the Arts, San Francisco. This lecture is part of the ongoing Larry Sultan Visiting Artist Program, a collaboration between Pier 24 Photography, California College of the Arts, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Joel Sternfeld, Glen Canyon Dam, Page, Arizona, 1983, (From the series American Prospects) Lecture by Joel Sternfeld Wednesday, September 17, 2014 / 7PM Timken Lecture Hall, California College of the Arts 1111 Eighth Street San Francisco, CA 94107 Free and open to the public. No RSVP - Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis American photographer Joel Sternfeld helped pioneer the use of color in art photography in the 1970s and 1980s, first gaining serious recognition with the publication of American Prospects in 1987. The book, which featured pictures taken on a series of road trips across the country, subtly documented underlying socioeconomic issues in America with irony and humor.  Subsequent projects have focused on different aspects of American life and culture, including alternative lifestyle communities, environmental degradation, historical sites and strangers. With an eye for the absurd as well as the quietly monumental, Sternfeld captures all of his subjects with dignity. Throughout his career, the book has been a significant method of presenting work for Sternfeld.  American Prospects was the first of a number of highly regarded and influential books, which includes On This Site (1996), Stranger Passing (2001), Sweet Earth: Experimental Utopias in America (2006), iDubai (2010), First Pictures (2011) and others. Sternfeld's work has been widely exhibited internationally and is included in the collections of institutions such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; and Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Prix-de-Rome (1990-91) and the Citibank Photography Award (2004). He currently lives in New York City and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. CURRENTLY ON VIEW AT PIER 24 PHOTOGRAPHY Erik Kessels, Installation view at Pier 24 Photography, 2014 For its sixth exhibition, Pier 24 Photography presents Secondhand, featuring artists who build repositories of found images, from which they appropriate, construct, edit, and sequence in order to create something entirely new. Through this process, their distinctly personal approaches become as wide-ranging as their source material.  The works presented in Secondhand resonate with our visual culture's obsession with communicating through selecting and editing existing material, allowing the distinction between curator and creator to become less defined. With more than one hundred and fifty years of printed photographs at their disposal, along with the millions of digital pictures uploaded daily, the artists included in Secondhand critically examine the role of images in our society. While mining these found images to reveal their own perspectives, the defining features of their artistic voices become process, craft, and display.  For information on the exhibition, please click here. VISIT PIER 24 PHOTOGRAPHY All appointments to visit Pier 24 Photography are made online.   To make an appointment, please select Individual or Group using the link below: CLICK HERE TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT  Appointments are available Monday - Friday, 10:00AM - 5:15PM ABOUT PIER 24 PHOTOGRAPHY Located on San Francisco's Embarcadero, Pier 24 Photography offers a venue to experience and quietly contemplate photography. In addition to presenting ongoing exhibitions, publications, and public programs, Pier 24 Photography houses the permanent photography collection of the Pilara Foundation. Join on FACEBOOK, TWITTER and INSTAGRAM.