Michael Weinstein

In one of the most unabashedly beautiful series of contemporary photographs, Joel Sternfeld takes us to New York City's Highline, an abandoned elevated railroad track where he has found a dense wilderness of untamed vegetation that mutates kaleidoscopically through the seasons. As sensitive and nuanced as a nature poet, Sternfeld gives us crystal-clear takes of verdant causeways piercing through rows of buildings in spring and high summer; muted, hazy shots of sere autumn, replete with burning apricot-colored grass and swarms of daisies; and fluffy white winterscapes laced with tangles of branches and even an evergreen tree festooned with Christmas lights. With determined single-point perspective and medium format, Sternfeld puts us right where he was, in an exuberant scrubland that nature has reclaimed for its ceaseless play.

Joel Sternfeld's "Walking the Highline" will be on display at Schneider Gallery, 230 West Superior through October 26.

(2002-10-02)

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