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Joel Sternfeld
After a Flash Flood, Rancho Mirage, California, July 19791979

Not on view
Color photograph of a suburban street undercut by severe erosion, with a vehicle lying on its side at the bottom of a sandy ravine below a palm-tree-lined road

Joel Sternfeld, After a Flash Flood, Rancho Mirage, California, July 1979, 1979, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of the artist, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Joel Sternfeld
United States, active New York, Arizona, Italy, Rome, born 1944
Title
After a Flash Flood, Rancho Mirage, California, July 1979
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1979
Medium
Dye coupler print
Dimensions
Image: 16 × 20 in. (40.64 × 50.8 cm) Primary support: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 60.96 cm) Mat: 24 × 28 in. (60.96 × 71.12 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the artist
Accession Number
AC1995.58.2
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography

  • Barron, Stephanie, S. Bernstein and I. S. Fort, with essays by Stephanie Barron, Sherri Bernstein, M. Dear, Howard N. Fox and Richard Rodriguez. Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Berkeley: University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000.

  • Road Trip: Photography of the American West: Photographies XIXe-XXIe Siècles du Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Bordeaux: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, 2014.

Copyright
© Joel Sternfeld