Janet Sternburg . Photography
janet@calarts.edu
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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
___________________________ New images taken from March to now, the time of the pandemic. (Soon to be a book).
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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