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JOSEPH STERLING'S AGE OF ADOLESCENCE [catalog for exhibition of Sterling?s photos (1959 and 1964), Stephen Daiter Gallery, March 1 ? April 20, 2002], text by Keith F. Davis, B/W photos by Joseph Sterling, softcover, 2-staple binding, 2002. BOOK CONDITION: fine. The text block and illustrations are in fine condition, with no tears, dogears, or marks. Signed by photographer on page 3. Not a remainder nor library book. No bookplate nor signature of prior owner. The illustrated wraps are in fine condition, 10 ½ x 8 ½, 30 pages, 8 ounces. XX [From Prabook website] Joseph Sterling was a photographer, his works can 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. Joseph Sterling was born on November 5, 1936, in El Paso, Texas. He 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 the book] Photography has been central to Joe Sterling's life. He first became interested in the medium at the age of eleven when he saw an older cousin's darkroom. It was, as he recalls, "love at first sight." Remarkably enough, the high school he attended in his hometown of El Paso, Texas, offered a four-year course in photography. This program was the brainchild of Shirlee Shaver, an art teacher, painter, and photographer who had earlier studied with Carlotta Corpron?an acquaintance of Institute of Design founder Låszlo Moholy-Nagy and herself a noted experimental photographer?at Texas Women's University, in Denton. In addition to Miss Shaver's teaching, Sterling's earliest influence was Life magazine ? ?at that time in El Paso," he recalls, with only slight exaggeration, "that's all I saw." Not surprisingly, he thought he would be a documentary photographer. Sterling photographed avidly through high school, recording his friends, sporting events, and the usual range of yearbook subjects. In truth, photography was far more than a simple hobby for Sterling: it allowed him to build a firm sense of identity at a characteristically vulnerable age. He regularly won local and national photography awards, thus achieving a recognition and respect that helped offset the fact that he was thin and painfully shy around girls. He died in 2010. Seller Inventory # 002002
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