JONI STERNBACH at PARIS PHOTO Los Angeles

SurfLand: 11.03.16 #5 Dave
Unique tintype. Broken Head, OZ, 2011   

(c) Joni Sternbach

SurfLand: 15.02.22 #4 Sky
Unique tintype. Goleta, CA, 2015
 (c) Joni Sternbach

JONI STERNBACH at PARIS PHOTO

"Surf Site Tin Type" Book Signing

Saturday, May 2, 1PM to 2PM 

Artbook/D.A.P at Booth C-5 

jonisternbach.com

and...

JONI STERNBACH
Surfland Exhibition

Wednesday, May 6, 7-9 PM  
Artist Reception and Book Signing

Galerie Hug
40 Rue de Seine, Paris, France

ANDERSON+LOW: Black Sand Surfers in Taiwan

Black Sand: Surfers In Taiwan

Published by Lucky Panda Press (March 2014)

Rinaldo Lee

Eddie Chen

 Anderson + Low  

Black Sand: Surfers in Taiwan

"Black Sand is a continuation of Anderson + Low's ongoing studies of sport and of sport as a reflection of both individual and cultural diversity and aspiration; it is an exploration of the new Taiwanese surfing culture."

"The volcanic black sand beaches, the grey sky of the typhoon season and a lead-colored sea provide a natural monochrome backdrop for this new series.The only color in the photographs is found in the surfer's skin and the vibrant design of their surfboards and surfing attire. the resulting images are the antithesis of the archetypal surfing image." –Publisher

ABOUT ANDERSON + LOW

EA: Where did you two meet?

Jonathan Anderson: We met in a photographic facility in London 25 years ago October the 12th this year. We’ve been working as the team 'Anderson + Low' for over twenty years.   

Edwin Low: We submitted some work for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. It was quite unique because it was the first time they accepted Photography as an art form in the Royal Academy. The rest is history.  

Jonathan Anderson: We thought we’d better take ourselves seriously and carry on, so that's where it all started.

LAURIE LAMBRECHT: Paint at Pulse

Photographer Laurie Lambrecht in front of her latest photographs Paint (#4), 2010 and Paint (#5), 2010 (left) and Roy Lichtenstein series (right), at Rick Wester Fine Art

Roy Lichtenstein in His Studio By Laurie Lambrecht
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Photographers Laurie Lambrecht and Magdalena Solé

I'm just catching up after a short break from these pages. In early May, Magdalena Solé and I visited Pulse New York, an annual contemporary Art Fair. Photographer Laurie Lambrecht showed us her latest work Paint, portraits of artist Eric Fischl's oil palettes at Rick Wester Fine Art.

Also showing, Joni Sternbach (l); Garry Winogrand (c); Richard Avedon, William S. Burroughs (r), at Rick Wester Fine Art.

Joni Sternbach

SurfLand, Revisited 2006-2011
Rick Wester Fine Art
May 17 - June 23, 2012

Magdalena Solé's New Delta Rising on Photo-eye.com.
Buy a vintage copy of An Interview with Eric Fischl
Photos (c) Elizabeth Avedon. All rights reserved

JONI STERNBACH: Art Nation Video

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SurfLand: 06.07.12 #4 Lone Surfer / 8" x 10" unique tintype. Ditch Plains
Copyright © Joni Sternbach / All rights reserved

SurfLand: 09.08.24 #4 Len / 14" x 17" unique tintype. Radars, Camp Hero

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Joni Sternbach Unique Tintypes

Artist in Residence: March 2011 The Art Park/Atlantic in Byron Bay, Australia. Into the Ether: Wet Plate Collodion Workshop: June, 2011 in conjunction with Luz Gallery, British Columbia. Into the Ether: Master Class in Wet Plate Collodion: October 22nd and 23rd, 2011 at Houston Center for Photography...more about Joni Sternbach

JONI STERNBACH: SurfLand

 Surfers: 10.02.08 #5 Hannah, unique tintype, Malibu
Copyright © Joni Sternbach / All rights reserved

 Surfers: 09.02.12 #8 Lakey, unique tintype, Rincon
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 Surfers: 10.02.17 #5 Chris and Dan, unique tintype, Refugio
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Surfers: 16.11.09 # Turtle Cove , unique tintype, Turtle Cove
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"I have a special fondness for Joni Sternbach's unique tintype images. Having lived in *Montauk for over 15 years, many of Sternbach's photographs were taken just down the cliff's from us at 'Turtle Cove' and 'Ditch Plains', and I recognize some of the locals in her book SurfLand. But it's the beauty and expertise of her wet-plate technique that really sets Sternbach's work apart from the rest of us."

"Working with a large-format camera, photographer Joni Sternbach concentrates on locations that are close to or directly on the water. In an era of rapid-fire digital snapshots, Sternbach employs the wet-plate collodion process and the distinctive appearance of her finished works echoes nineteenth-century traditions of anthropological photography. The wet-plate technique informs her careful compositions while producing intimate portraits imbued with spontaneity and the raw quality of the process reveals the dignity in her subjects. In SurfLand, photographer and subject overlap on the periphery of two powerful elements: the land and the sea. The singular, primitive act of surfing on the water is eclipsed by the social and negotiated state of human interaction on the shore. Sternbach's surfers are persistent elements in a shifting natural scene, acting as a bridge between the sea as an unbridled force of nature and the shore line, a place of leisure and cultural phenomena." –Flak Photo's March Weekend Series

AIPAD with Rick Wester Fine Art
April 4 through 7, 2013
Park Avenue Armory

ICP Travel Workshop Summer 2013
Into The Ether and on the Road, Wet Plate Workshop
Please contact ICP for further details 

The Book: SurfLand | Photographs by Joni Sternbach

JONI STERNBACH WEBSITE

* Priscilla Rattazzi's Vintage Photograph of Matthew Avedon and me on the 'beach' in *Montauk for Italian Per Lui Magazine