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Joni Sternbach: Surf Site Tin Type

By Joni Sternbach

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Joni Sternbach: Surf Site Tin Type

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Surf Site Tin Type is an homage to a sport, a way of life, and a tribute to the people who practice it. Over the past decade Brooklyn-based photographer Joni Sternbach has traveled around the world, creating tintype portraits of contemporary surfers using the nineteenth-century wet-plate collodion process. Stunning in their detail, these one-of-a-kind images evoke the romance and adventure of surfing, and the bold individualism of the men and women who live to ride the waves. Working with a large-format camera and using hand-poured plates that are prepared and developed on location, Sternbach has profiled a fascinating range of surfers, both well known and unknown, on prized surfing beaches. Locations include Montauk and Malibu in the United States, Byron Bay in Australia and Cornwall in England. Typical surfing photographs are action shots, riding the mighty wave and in vivid color, whereas Sternbach turns to a historic technique to capture something essential and even primordial in the portraits and settings, recalling a tradition of nineteenth-century anthropological photography. Surf Site Tin Type features texts by noted photo critic and historian Lyle Rexer, curator April M. Watson, and Chris Malloy and Johnny Abegg, both well-known surfers and filmmakers.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
192
Release Date:
2015-04-01
Publication Date:
2015-03-24
Publisher:
DAMIANI
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
8862083807
ISBN13:
9788862083805
Weight:
1589 g
Height:
253 cm
Width:
310 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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