Background
Joseph Sterling was born on November 5, 1936, in El Paso, Texas, United States.
(From 1959 to 1964 (arguably the adolescence of America), ...)
From 1959 to 1964 (arguably the adolescence of America), Joseph Sterling photographed teenagers, mostly in and around Chicago, hanging out after school, at drive-ins, in fast cars. As Sterling himself defined it, "the world of the adolescent is totally interlaced within itself and incapable of freeing itself...It whirls, rolls, and engulfs what it is allowed to engulf." Along with an essay by David Travis, Curator of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago since 1972, this volume collects more than 100 images of a time that's both historically important and emotionally resonant, one in which, as Sterling said, "opportunity is revealed and must be exploited."
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2005
Joseph Sterling was born on November 5, 1936, in El Paso, Texas, United States.
Joseph Sterling began photographing by age eleven, in his native Texas. Inspired by a teacher and a single photograph by Harry Callahan that he saw in a magazine, he left his home state and Texas State College in 1956, transferring to Chicago and the Institute of Design.
Joseph Sterling received a Bachelor of Science (1959) and a Master of Science (1962) in Photography from the IIT Institute of Design (ID) at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT).
After graduating, Joseph Sterling pursued a career from 1960 to 1990 as a magazine and corporate/industrial photographer, for which he won numerous awards. During this time he traveled widely and continued to pursue his personal photography. Joseph Sterling also helped establish the photography department at Columbia College of Chicago and has taught and lectured at both the Institute of Design and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Among other publications, Sterling’s work has appeared in Aperture magazine and Time-Life’s "This Fabulous Century." His photographs can also be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, George Eastman House, The Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.
(From 1959 to 1964 (arguably the adolescence of America), ...)
2005