Joel Sternfeld: Luhring Augustine.

The circumstances surrounding Joel Sternfeld's last show, in 2004, were almost as sensational as the photographs themselves. Defecting from Pace/MacGill Gallery to the same gallery as Gregory Crewdson (a Sternfeld champion who makes work that bears a striking resemblance to the senior artist's), his "American Prospects" photographs, shot in the late 1970s and mid-'80s, were printed nearly twice the size of earlier editions.

It was a controversial move that seemed both market- and art-historically driven, a self-conscious update for the post-Gurksy age aimed at positioning ...

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