Joni Sternbach Explained

Joni Sternbach (born 1953) 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 surf culture,[1] [2] and for her ethnographic rather than action approach.[3]

Early life

Sternbach was born in the Bronx, New York in 1953. She received her M.A. in photography from the International Center for Photography at NYU in 1987.[4] [5] She has also taught photography at New York University and the International Center of Photography and Cooper Union.

Work

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: "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."[6] [7] Indeed, Sternbach is regarded as a master and pioneer of the 20th-21st-century revival of early analog processes.[8] [9]

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."[10] 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 has been recognized for her work as a female surf photographer.[11]

Collections

Books

Notes and References

  1. Book: Comer, Krista. Surfer Girls in the New World Order. Duke University Press. 2010. 978-0-8223-4805-4. Durham, NC.
  2. Book: Stories of surfing Surfing, space and subjectivity/intersectionality, in Surfing, Sex, Genders and Sexualities, ed. Lisa Hunter. Olive. Rebecca. Roy. Georgina. Wheaton. Belinda. 2018-04-27. Routledge. 978-1-315-20123-8. London, UK. chapter 8. en. 10.4324/9781315201238.
  3. Web site: Capturing the Stillness of Surfers in Portraits. Cardwell. Diane. July 20, 2015. New York Times. March 10, 2020.
  4. Web site: Photographer in Focus: Joni Sternbach - National Portrait Gallery. www.npg.org.uk. 2020-02-08.
  5. Web site: Joni Sternbach. LensCulture. Joni Sternbach . LensCulture. 2020-02-08.
  6. Web site: Old-Fashioned Photos Reveal the Passion and Grit of Surfers. https://web.archive.org/web/20160611080237/http://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2016/06/sternbach-old-fashioned-surfer-tintypes#close. dead. June 11, 2016. Dotschkal. Janna. 7 June 2016. National Geographic. 3 February 2020.
  7. Web site: Joni Sternbach - Primordial Portraits. 2016-09-14. Huck Magazine. en-US. 2020-02-05.
  8. Book: Bendandi, Luca. Experimental Photography A Handbook of Techniques. Thames & Hudson. 2015. London.
  9. Book: Photographs not taken. Steacy, Will, 1980-, Rexer, Lyle. 978-0-9832316-1-5. [New York]. 772499880. 2012.
  10. Web site: Capturing the Stillness of Surfers in Portraits. Cardwell. Diane. 2015-07-20. New York Times. 2020-02-03.
  11. News: 12 Female Surf Photographers You Should Be Following Right Now. 2020-03-16. Surfer. en-US. 2020-03-23.
  12. Web site: Gwynedd Haslock - National Portrait Gallery. www.npg.org.uk.
  13. Web site: 04.05.21 #4 (Prince's Harbor, Staten Island) | All Works | the MFAH Collections .
  14. Web site: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art - Kansas City. Nelson Atkins. en-US. 2020-02-03.
  15. Web site: Joni Sternbach. Annenberg Space for Photography. en-US. 2020-02-08.
  16. Web site: Larissa Leclair - Surfland. en. 2020-02-08.
  17. Web site: Surf Site Tin Type Joni Sternbach - 9788862083805. www.damianieditore.com. 2020-02-08.

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