SURFLAND

Joni Sternbach / Introduction by Phillip Prodger

ISBN 10: 1934334065 / ISBN 13: 9781934334065

Published by Photolucida, Portland, OR., 2009

About this Item

1st. Edition, 1st. and only printing,2009. Tan cloth hardcover with a paste down image, 79 page book. This amazing photographer using the old Tin Type process of this ton black & white full page images. A scarce signed by her on the main title page.This portfolio was the subject of the artist's first solo museum exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum in 2009. A very scarce out of print and just signed with her name. Condition : NEW: NOTE: NO INTERNATIONAL SALES Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

Seller Inventory # 021526-U

Bibliographic Details

• Title: SURFLAND
• Publisher: Photolucida, Portland, OR.
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1934334065
• ISBN 13: 9781934334065
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Joni Sternbach
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket as Issued
• Signed: Signed By Photographer
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed Editions
  • Photography / Art / Monograph / Documentary

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Synopsis

"On the waves, surfers are muscle, sinew, and impulse. But at the shore, gravity weighs down their limbs. They become ordinary people again, their hair sliced with slat spray, their bodies squeezed into neoprene wetsuits. And it is here, on the beaches of Montauk, New York, Carpinteria and Santa Cruz, California, that Joni Sternbach finds and photographs them. Sternbach makes her photographs in tintype, a labor-intensive technique little changed since its invention in the 1850s. Photographing this way is a kind of performance, which Sternbach uses to her advantage. Her elaborate setup is an object of curiosity that helps attract sitters. The process is slow and involved, so making a portrait becomes a conversation." from "Surfland" Photographs by Joni Sternbach