SURFLAND
Artist's Talk, Book Signing and Opening Reception:
Friday, January 27, 6:00-8:00 pm
Exhibition Season: January 27 - April 22, 2012
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"SurfLand is an ongoing project of contemporary portraits of surfers created using the historic wet-plate collodion process. The photographs are a unique blending of subject matter and photographic technique. Using the instantaneous wet-plate collodion process, I am creating one-of-a-kind tintypes that are imbued with a feeling of ambiguity, timelessness and mystery." - Joni Sternbach |
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION Captured directly on the shoreline, Joni Sternbach's luminous images possess the immediate quality of a singular print created then-and-there as she captures portraits of contemporary surfers in tintype, a 19th-century technique first used during the American Civil War and little changed since then. The large camera seems to slow down time, so that her subjects possess a distilled and timeless grace and beauty that seems so far removed from the energy, movement and animation we commonly associate with the surfing life.
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EXHIBITION EVENTS: ARTIST TALK, BOOK SIGNING & OPENING RECEPTION Friday, January 27th 6:00- 8:00pm --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Steve, Santa Barbara, CA 2009 | Kim & Ed, Montauk, NY 2007 | Cori, Santa Barbara, CA 2009 |