ESSEN.- The Museum Folkwang, Essen/Germany, is dedicating a first European retrospective to the American photographer Joel Sternfeld (*1944, New York) from 16 July, with around 130 works from over three decades. Entitled Joel Sternfeld – Color Photographs since 1970 eleven projects in total are being shown. One emphasis comes with 60 photographs from his never before published early work, which extends from 1969 to the late 1970s. Sternfeld’s gaze has always been directed at his home country of America, with its particularities, its people and its own landscapes.