Description
"I'm Drawn to Strange Juxtapositions."
The writer, photographer, and philosopher Janet Sternburg (b. Boston, 1943; lives and works in Los Angeles and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico) makes work that captures the momentary flashes of sensory experience as well as the endurance through time of the world around us. In her most recent project, she has walked through Los Angeles during 2020 when the city appeared to be frozen in time but also revealed signs and traces of unruly ongoing life. The resulting photographs show apparently solid urban structures - facades, walls, garages, traffic lights - giving way to nature, human gestures, and the phantoms of light.
Bringing together abstraction and recognizable reality, the book is a visual poem of the everyday that shifts perceptions of space, perspective, and what is conventionally thought of as Los Angeles. I've Been Walking is Sternburg's tribute and hymn to her city. It limns a world rich in metaphors that refuse to be reduced to a single meaning.
With a conversation between Janet Sternburg and philosopher Jane Bennett (Vibrant Matter).Author: Janet Sternburg
Publisher: Distanz
Published: 09/21/2021
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.95lbs
Size: 11.20h x 8.40w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9783954763849
ISBN10: 3954763842
BISAC Categories:
- Art | Individual Artists | Artists' Books
- Photography | Individual Photographers | Artists' Books
About the Author
Janet Sternburg born in Boston, 1943; lives and works in Los Angeles and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico