OXBOW ARCHIVE

Photographs from Joel Sternfeld's Oxbow Archive

from the Exhibtion Catalogue description -
In 1836, the landscape painter and conservationist Thomas Cole completed "View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm (The Oxbow)," his iconic painting of the Connecticut River where it bends like an ox yoke. Some 200 years later, Joel Sternfeld walked into the field depicted in the lower right quadrant of Cole's painting - which he'd first photographed in 1978 while travelling for his seminal American Prospects series - & began making almost daily images. By 2006, the oxbow in the river was crossed by an interstate highway, realizing Cole's worst fears of the impact of progress. This exhibit collects 77 quietly haunting photos Sternfeld made over the next 1 1/2 years.

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