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| Foster Ave Beach, 1968, Chicago. Lee Balterman. CALUMET 412 |
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| Age of Adolescence, 1959-64, Chicago. Joseph Sterling |
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| Age of Adolescence, 1959-64, Chicago. Joseph Sterling |
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| Age of Adolescence, 1959-64, Chicago. Joseph Sterling |
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| Morse Ave Beach, 1929, Chicago. CALUMET 412 |
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| Oak Street Beach, 1950, Chicago. CALUMET 412 |
Through looking at these photos--way too much time spent at the photoblog
Calumet 412--I've now been turned onto Joseph Sterling. Who is this guy?
his pictures capture an era of James Dean wannabes, greasers, Bobby sockers, 1950s youth, the TEENAGER. Many of his photos have been collected into a book,
The Age of Adolescence. Many of the photos are on display at
Many of the photos were snapped at the beach, and they have a tactile
quality that makes the viewer feel sand on skin. "He loved the beach
because people were relaxed there, and you could mingle, and you could
get all kinds of angles and emotions," Berlanga said.
I would love to learn more about Sterling--there isn't even a wiki entry about him!
Anyway, enjoy the summer, the fireworks, the gritty hot sand, the beautiful girls, the boys in their suits, the feverish humidity and sex in the air. Sterling's beach pictures are ripe with all these crazy feelings. That feeling of now is all we have.
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