Larissa Leclair interviews Joni Sternbach on Surfland

Photography writer, curator, and writer Larissa Leclair has recently published a great interview with Joni Sternbach about her series Surfland.

Tonight: CCNY's Silent Photo Benefit Auction

from CCNY:


Gentleman No. 28 from the series Untitled Gentleman, 2008 © Erica Allen

Contemporary and Vintage Photographs

Wednesday, December 2, 6-8 pm
Calumet Photographic, 22 West 22nd Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues)

Help support CCNY's programs at the annual benefit auction. This year's auction features work by a choice selection of hot emerging photographers, a collection of vintage photographs, and exciting works by established photographers.

Participating artists include Erica Allen, Mariette Pathy Allen, Merry Alpern, Timothy Briner, Susan Burnstine, Megan Cump, Amy Elkins, Jon Feinstein, Larry Fink, Martine Fougeron, Samuel Gottscho, Henry Horenstein, Leigh Ledare, David Levinthal, Wayne Liu, Alex Morel, Lori Nix, Leah Oates, Nadhar Omar, Stuart O'Sullivan, Francesca Romeo, Lynn Saville, Aaron Siskind, Tema Stauffer, Will Steacy, Amy Stein, Joni Sternbach, Eric Weeks, William Wegman, Susan Wides, Shigeki Yoshida, Bernard Yenelouis, and many others, as CCNY continues to showcase exciting work at a range of prices.

This Friday: Joni Sternbach @ ICP

Joni Sternbach: Surfland
Lecture
ICP
1114 Avenue of the America,
NYC
October 30, 2009 7 PM

Today: Joni Sternbach Book Signing

SurfLand Book Signing with Joni Sternbach
@ The Surf Lodge
183 Edgemere Street
Montauk, New York
Sunday August 9, 2009 --4-6 p.m.

Joni Sternbach book now available

from Photo Lucida:©Joni Sternbach

Joni Sternbach's gorgeous new book, SurfLand is now available to order!
Cloth hardcover, 80 pages, 52 photographs, embossed cover image
Sternbach makes her photographs in tintype, a labor-intensive technique little changed since it's invention in the 1850s. Spontaneous and unpredictable, the streaks and tonal variations in the finished photographs reflect their hand-made character, the corners rubbed where they were held in the camera.

Posing on rocky outcrops, in front of uprooted trees, or on thick mats of woody flotsam, Sternbach's surfers inhabit strange landscapes. The best of Sternbach's photographs convey insistent longing. They are about relationships - the relationship between surfer and board, between human and landscape, between photographer and subject, and between the surfers themselves...she has discovered a new sort of home - a place without walls, defined only by belonging and the physicality of existence.

- Philip Prodger, Curator of Photography, Peabody Essex Museum

Order here.

Joni Sternbach @ Peabody Essex Museum

If you are in Salem, MA don't miss Joni Sternbach Solo Exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum - through October 4, 2009.
Mark Feeney also wrote an article about the show for Boston.com, which you can find here.
And Joni's book "Ditch Plains" is also still available on Blurb.com (as is Nymphoto's 1st Book ;)

Joni Sternbach

Joni teaching an NYU class at her studio ©N.Buesing

Joni Sternbach's (who taught me at NYU) self-published book on Surfers titled "Ditch Plains" is a favorite of the staff at Blurb and Mrs. Deane likes it too. As do we here at Nymphoto.
Take a look at Joni Sternbach's work via her website: www.jonisternbach.com