© Joni Sternbach/Courtesy of Peabody Essex Museum

One of more than 40 tintype portraits of surfers in Joni Sternbach’s solo exhibition, “SurfLand,” on view at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, from May 16 to October 9. Sternbach used a 19th-century wooden camera and a wet-plate technique to create the portraits.

Tags: antique processes, Joni Sternbach, Surf photography, tintypes

This entry was posted on Friday, May 15th, 2009 at 12:00 pm ET by Holly Stuart Hughes and is filed under Fine Art.