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SurfLand: Photographs by Joni Sternbach
The surfers act as a bridge between the sea as an unbridled force of nature and the shore line, a place of leisure and cultural phenomena. — Joni SternbachArtist Joni Sternbach’s modern vision of shorelines and surfers is at once ephemeral and elemental in style and presentation. Using a large-format nineteenth-century-style view camera and a portable darkroom, Sternbach photographed surfers on New York and California shorelines and then made tintypes on the spot. Tintypes, created using a wet-plate technique, demand that chemicals be hand-applied, exposed and developed before the plate dries, and that the subject remain still.
The subjects, posed as anthropological icons of surf culture, vulnerable, mortal, and focused, pause for a moment on their way into or out of the waves. The new exhibition features Sternbach’s original tintypes.Read the ESPN Article, May 2010Read the C-Magazine Article, June 2009
Read the Boston Globe Review, May 2009
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