Online Group Exhibition - "Land(e)scape” October 2022
Analog Forever Magazine is pleased to showcase 24 images in this month’s online exhibition, entitled “Land(e)scape,” curated by American artist, photographer and filmmaker, Joni Sternbach!
The curator writes:
Wet plate photography over the years has typically focused on both portraiture and landscape. For this exhibition, and during this time of global upheaval and national political concerns, my thoughts lead me to how photography can play a role in creating a space for both imagination and escape. Show me work that is tied to the idea of both landscape and escape, made with the wet collodion process.
When I opened the folder of images for this exhibition, I was just thrilled to enter this magical realm out of time, and in a place that wet plate can so often take me. Seen through the eyes of over 40 photographers, and curated down to 24, each collodion image offered me a window (literally and figuratively) into another a world and an escape from my quotidian reality.
I traveled across desert and bridge. I saw a tall brick tower possibly from the fictional town of Hogsmeade. I came across an abandoned boat where a cacophony of blackbirds exploded in the sky. I journeyed to the edge of the earth where all that was left were the mud tracks of our man altered environment. And I visited mist covered mountains with an inexplicable burst of flowers.
Whether these photographs were crafted in the darkroom or shot in-camera, the fictional or actual environment they represent was transformative for me. I offer you this selection and hope this magical land(e)scape delights you as much as it did me.
GALLERY
About the Curator
Joni Sternbach is an American artist, photographer and filmmaker. Over the course of a career spanning many decades, her portrait-based work explores a variety of themes, while simultaneously experimenting with a variety of historic photographic processes. She made her curatorial debut in March at Penumbra Foundation with the exhibition, “Reimaging Likeness and Landscape,” featuring six contemporary women artists.
She is best known for her wet plate collodion tintype portraits of surfers and surfboards, made on beaches around the globe.
Sternbach’s work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States and abroad and is held in several major collections including the High Museum, LACMA, JP Morgan Chase, The Nelson-Atkins Museum, Museum of Photographic Arts, Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, France, St Louis Art Museum and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She is the recipient of many grants including NYFA and CAPS and the 2011 Clarence John Laughlin and 2010 Santo Foundation awards.