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Brooklyn-based photographer, Joni Sternbach utilizes the labor intensive technique of tintypes to investigate the relationship of landscape and its inhabitants. Her work has been exhibited throughout the US and abroad including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and, most recently, the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. Sternbach recently received the Photolucida Critical Mass 2007 Book Award, which facilitated the publication of her book SurfLand. Sternbach uses a large-format camera to produce the black and white one-of-a-kind tintypes that reference the lineage of historic photographic processes. In the tradition of ethnographic photography, Sternbach's interest in surfers evolved over the many years spent photographing the ocean in Montauk, a surf spot on the east end of Long Island and later in Malibu and Rincon, California.
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