Joni Sternbach

Joni Sternbach is an American photographer whose large-format camera images employ early photographic processes, including tintype and collodion. Using an 8×10 Deardorff large format camera, Sternbach focuses on in situ portraits of surfers. Sternbach's photographs are particularly notable for highlighting women surfers and surt culture,[1][2] and for her ethnographic rather than action approach.[3] Her work is held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, France, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, The Nelson Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.[4][5][6]

Biography

Sternbach was born in the Bronx, New York. She received her M.A. in photography at NYU/International Center for Photography in 1987.[7][8] She was visiting artist at Cooper Union and she continues to teach wet collodion photography at Penumbra Foundation in New York where she is founding faculty and advisory board member. She has also taught photography at New York University and the International Center of Photography.

In a National Geographic profile, Sternbach describes her relation to using early photographic processes as deploying a medium in need of an appropriate subject matter, one that she gradually found surfers to fulfill quite by accident[9]: "Once I understood the limitations of the process, I realized that it was more of a question of finding a subject matter to suit the medium, not the other way around."[10][11] Indeed, Sternbach is regarded as a master and pioneer of the 20th-21st-century revival of early analog processes.[12][13]

Photographs in Sternbach's 2009 book Surfland are described by The New York Times as "a kind of ethnographic study in stillness, silvery portraits of a tribe united by a sense of adventure, the love of a sport and a connection to the ocean."[14] Sternbach's "16.02.20 #1 Thea+Maxwell" from the series Surfland was awarded second place in the 2016 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize. Sternbach is one of a growing number of female surf photographers[9] blunting a traditionally masculine sport and a traditionally masculine photographic genre.

Books

Surfland (2009), Photolucida[15]

Surf Site Tin Type (2014), Damiani Editore[16]

References
  1. Comer, Krista (2010). Surfer Girls in the New World Order. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-4805-4.
  2. Olive, Rebecca; Roy, Georgina; Wheaton, Belinda (2018-04-27). Stories of surfing Surfing, space and subjectivity/intersectionality, in Surfing, Sex, Genders and Sexualities, ed. Lisa Hunter. London, UK: Routledge. pp. chapter 8. doi:10.4324/9781315201238. ISBN 978-1-315-20123-8.
  3. Cardwell, Diane (July 20, 2015). "Capturing the Stillness of Surfers in Portraits". New York Times. Retrieved March 10, 2020.
  4. "The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art - Kansas City". Nelson Atkins. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
  5. "Joni Sternbach - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  6. "Joni Sternbach". Annenberg Space for Photography. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  7. "Photographer in Focus: Joni Sternbach - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  8. LensCulture, Joni Sternbach |. "Joni Sternbach". LensCulture. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  9. "12 Female Surf Photographers You Should Be Following Right Now". SURFER Magazine. 2020-03-16. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  10. Dotschkal, Janna (7 June 2016). "Old-Fashioned Photos Reveal the Passion and Grit of Surfers". National Geographic. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
  11. "Joni Sternbach - Primordial Portraits". Huck Magazine. 2016-09-14. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
  12. Bendandi, Luca (2015). Experimental Photography A Handbook of Techniques. London: Thames & Hudson.
  13. Photographs not taken. Steacy, Will, 1980-, Rexer, Lyle. [New York]. 2012. ISBN 978-0-9832316-1-5. OCLC 772499880.CS1 maint: others (link)
  14. Cardwell, Diane (2015-07-20). "Capturing the Stillness of Surfers in Portraits". New York Times. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
  15. "Larissa Leclair - Surfland". Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  16. "Surf Site Tin Type Joni Sternbach - 9788862083805". www.damianieditore.com. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
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