Joni Sternbach

A review by Vince Aletti in the New Yorker alerts us to Joni Sternbach’s exhibition of surfer portraits at Rick Wester Fine Art. Aletti writes:

Sternbach’s photographs of surfers, taken in the past six years in Malibu, Montauk, and Australia, look as if they could have been made any time in the past half century of hang-ten culture’s endless summer. Tanned, toned, and handsomely weathered men and women pose with their boards at the water’s edge”classic, almost mythic figures, rendered both specific and iconic. Produced as tintypes using the anachronistic, unreliable wet-plate collodion process, Sternbach’s pictures are at once images and objects, their warm tones and burnished quality suggesting pale sunlight on a momentarily tranquil sea.

The exhibition is only on view through Saturday, June 23, but to see all of the pictures, click here.

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