Janet Sternburg . Photography

 

 


Janet Sternburg . Photography

janet@calarts.edu
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Selected Images ↓ | About Sternburg |Selected Writings on Sternburg's Work|CV | Events|Recent Press
Exhibition Stories and Pictures: Limbus| Fertile Confusion
Books & Catalogues: Overspilling World |I've Been Walking

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My work is about revealing an interpenetrating world.
To that end, I use no manipulation whatsoever.
I work with single-use and iPhone cameras because their limitations give me what I want,
images that are close to the way our minds work.
I want to encourage in myself and in others a kind of perception that leads to deeper reflection, which in turn leads to thinking about what matters personally and socially.

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Siren . Olot, Spain . 2011

 

 

Wall . Granada, Spain . 2011

 

Tepozlan hand . Tepozlan, Mexico . 2013

 

Radiant . Los Angeles . 2014

 

Bikini . New York City . 2015

 

Bikini - detail


Stream . San Miguel de Allende . 2001

 

Tutu . New York City . 2014

 

The Weird sisters . New York City . 2014

 

Tightrope . Barcelona, Spain . 2011

 

Splendor . San Miguel de Allende . 1999

 

Orchard . Madrid, Spain . 2015

 

The hand that lays upon . Los Angeles . 2012

 

Mortal . Barcelona, Spain . 2011

 

Archaïc . Los Angeles . 2015

 

Chandelier . Los Angeles . 2016

 

Encounter . Los Angeles . 2015

 

Mountain . Lofoten, Norway . 2002

 

Ventura . Sherman Oaks . 2014

 

Ventura - detail

 

Amphora . San Miguel de Allende . 1999

 

Cuesta . San Miguel de Allende . 2008

 

Still, Life . Madrid . 2015

 

Synapse . San Miguel de Allende . 2009

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New Works: from City of Shrines: Los Angeles

Pumping Iron . Los Angeles

 

Toys . Los Angeles

 

Need . Los Angeles

 

Ticket Booth . Los Angeles

 

We hang what we love . Los Angeles

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New images taken in Los Angeles during the year of the pandemic, from the book I’ve Been Walking

Almost all the Los Angeles Museums had closed, and The Getty Museum would close the next day.

 

For a while I walked through Los Angeles’ empty streets, seeing mostly what was desolate.

 

Then I started to see a poetry that I hadn’t always seen in more populated times.

 

And the light kept changing.

 

I became fascinated by two buildings close to where I live in Downtown Los Angeles. One was the abandoned L.A. Times, the other was CalTrans headquarters. Both have niches along their outside walls that hold faded photographs. I stood in front of these at various hours of the day, choosing a detail and letting what was behind me enter the frame.

 

 

Sometimes I drive to Point Fermin, the southernmost point of Los Angeles County.

 

Sometimes I drive to the north of the County, as here in Green Valley.

 

And I hope and despair, with both in my lens. August, 2020

 

 

 


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