# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joel-sternfeld
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:25:11.712Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joel-sternfeld"
name: "Joel Sternfeld"
slug: "joel-sternfeld"
description: "Joel Sternfeld is an American artist using photography, as well as an educator and writer. He is known for his large-format color photography of contemporary American life. His work contributed to the establishment of color photography as a respected artistic medium. Sternfeld’s photography follows in the tradition of Walker Evans and Robert Frank. His images are often imbued with a sense of beauty and melancholy, capturing moments of hope, despair, and tenderness. Since the publication of his landmark book American Prospects in 1987, Sternfeld’s photography has intertwined conceptual and political themes, reflecting his engagement with history, landscape theory, and the passage of time."
tagline: "American photographer (born 1944)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1944-06-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.source.ie/issues/issues0120/issue18/is18revharisl.html"
sources:
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    title: "جويل ستيرنفيلد"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Sternfeld"
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    title: "Joel Sternfeld"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Sternfeld"
    title: "Joel Sternfeld"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Sternfeld"
    title: "Joel Sternfeld"
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  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%B3%E3%83%95%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89"
    title: "ジョエル・スタンフェルド"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump