Joel SternfeldWalking the High Line

Photographs: Joel Sternfeld
Text: John Stilgoe
Publisher: Steidl
55 pages
Pictures: 24
Year: 2001
ISBN: 3-88243-726-X
Price: € 90
Since March 2000, photographer Joel Sternfeld has been documenting the abandoned elevated railway, the High Line, which runs down the West Side of Manhattan. Sometimes a river of grass, sometimes more like wheat fields of Canada, this unique ruin permits contemplation of nature, and of cityscape. Walking the path of this true time landscape, experiencing the seasons as they unfold in a ribbon within the vertical architectural landscape of New York City, Sternfeld has created a suite of images marked by quiet grace and formal rigor. In Walking the High Line, as in all of his work, landscape is read as a social and cultural indicator.











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