Into the Ether: Intro to Wet Plate with Joni Sternbach

Into the Ether: Intro to Wet Plate with Joni Sternbach

Date: November 3 & 4 | Saturday and Sunday
Time: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016
Price: $395 + $100 Materials Fee

This two day hands-on workshop is an introduction to the wet plate process. Immediate, hand-made and practiced in the 19th century by photographers such as Timothy O’Sullivan, Edward Muybridge and Julia Margaret Cameron, this class contextualizes the process in today’s changing photographic climate. Students will learn the basics of how to pour collodion to make positives (ambrotypes and tintypes) and glass negatives. Working in small groups with reproduction cameras and vintage brass lenses, they will be guided step by step in how to make these unique and instantaneous photographs. All materials are supplied. Limited to 8 participants.
Instructor Biography:
Joni Sternbach uses early photographic processes to create contemporary landscapes and seascapes. Her photography has taken her to some of the most remote deserts in the American West to some of the most prized surf beaches around the world. Sternbach is an artist and educator and has taught for many years at various institutions.
Her series, SurfLand, captures portraits of surfers in tintype, and was shown at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, in 2009 and will travel to the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, Florida in 2013. Her monograph, SurfLand, was published in May 2009 by photolucida. Sternbach’s work is part of many public collections including the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, CA and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston . She is the recipient of several grants including NYFA and CAPS and recently traveled to Byron Bay Australia as an artist in residence with Artpark. Sternbach is represented by Joseph Bellows in La Jolla, CA, and Edward Cella Art and Architecture in Los Angeles, CA.

www.jonisternbach.com

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