February 7, 2019 2:07 pm
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Edition 3/10 available through Paddle8 and Penumbra Foundation. Click here to see more! Auction ends February 21, at 5PM.
September 15, 2018 3:55 pm
It is so good to be back in Hawaii. If you are here on the island, please join us tonight at Treehouse Hawaii for the magazine release of TRIM Hawaii.
November 5, 2017 2:53 pm
Upcoming solo exhibition at the Harn Museum of Art
opens November 21- April 24, 2018
VAST: Sea | Salt | Sand | Sky features over seventy photographs by New York artist Joni Sternbach. They picture the sublime vastness of ocean, sky and desert captured on film, and produced as cyanotype, platinum/palladium, gelatin silver or pigment prints and video. VAST also includes Sternbach’s most celebrated series, Surfland, a mesmerizing array of surfer portraits (some of noted surfers) made on beaches around the world in the 19th century wet plate collodion process. Applying almost every photographic form there is, the artist uses a variety of matrices (glass, film, video), camera sizes (the largest, a 16×20” view camera) and lenses (including a 1840s Petzval Portrait lens) to create exquisitely detailed imagery. “I have pursued historic mediums,” says Sternbach, “as a way to have a conversation with history, and play with photography.”
The word “vast” references the subject and scale of Sternbach’s prints, and the reverie she finds there. Her expansive vistas include history (marking the passage of time and change) and the contemporary sublime (terrifying and awesome in the earth’s beauty and power). Her surfer portraits shift this inward meditation outward to where surfer’s bodies and boards master the ocean’s edge, finding euphoria there.
The exhibition is curated by Carol McCusker, PhD, Curator of Photography.
The artist will give a public lecture in the Harn’s Chandler Auditorium on Sunday, February 18, at 3 p.m.
February 10, 2017 2:11 am
It’s true, I’ve always wanted to photograph surfers in a barrel
November 20, 2016 9:26 am
Lots of gratitude to all the folks at the National Portrait Gallery in London for the 2nd place award in the Taylor Wessing Portrait competition.
December 15, 2015 10:24 pm
Holiday Magic! “Surf Site Tin Type” (now in its second edition) is featured in Vogue’s Best Photography Books to give, from 2015!
November 19, 2015 11:26 pm
Last week I was in Paris, but before that I flew to Santa Barbara to photograph a group shot for the new Women and The Waves film by Heather Hudson. We came together from points east, west, north and south, meeting at the beach on a beautiful Saturday in November.
This image was made with an 11×14 camera.
