{"product_id":"joel-sternfeld-nags-head","title":"Joel Sternfeld Nag's Head","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSternfeld’s candid images of an Outer Banks summer, which went on to inform his seminal work\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eAmerican Prospects\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the summer of 1975, facing surgery with the potential of paralysis, a young Joel Sternfeld went off in search of a last idyll―and found it in Nags Head, on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. From June to August he captured the beach town floating in time, a sense of spatial and temporal fluidity. Sternfeld’s images show beachgoers of all ages enjoying scenes of leisure and partying in what became his first body of work addressing a season.\u003cbr\u003eYet this summer sojourn was tragically broken by the news of the death of his brother; Sternfeld returned to New York, never to go back to Nags Head. Eventually he began working again and one day ventured to Rockaway Beach, Queens. Here he took a picture in which “all at once the ugly scene appeared beautiful to me”: the hues of sand, apartments and sky fuse into a cohesive whole. This photo, with its conceptual roots in Nags Head, would lead to the color structures of Sternfeld’s magnum opus \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAmerican Prospects\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, his ambitious realization of what he had always wanted to do: follow the seasons across America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51499924226335,"sku":null,"price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0271\/4818\/9769\/files\/61jUyo_xuL._SY522.jpg?v=1767376391","url":"https:\/\/bluedreamneworleans.com\/products\/joel-sternfeld-nags-head","provider":"Blue Dream New Orleans","version":"1.0","type":"link"}