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Can a still photograph embody living perception? Can it contain its abundance? Can photography, which is not a time-based medium, render ongoing flow? Can it do justice to this notion of an over-spilling world? To these questions, photographer Janet Sternburg (b. Boston, 1943; lives and works in Los Angeles and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico), a writer and philosopher as well as a photographer, says yes. Her work proves that photography can register the living perception that is our experience. Working without any optical or digital manipulation, and using the simplest of technical means-disposable and early iPhone cameras-she draws together the manifold aspects of the world on a single plane, portraying a vision of interpenetrating and layered time and space. "Overspilling World" is Janet Sternburg´s first monograph. With texts by Sternburg, art historian Pepe Karmel, photographer Catherine Opie, curator Alexandra von Stosch, and filmmaker-photographer Wim Wenders.

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"Overspilling World collects the photographs of Janet Sternburg, poet, playwright, documentary filmmaker and producer, and memoirist. What is striking about Sternburg´s work, is not that she does all these different disciplines so well, but rather that she brings the same intellectual curiosity and deeply-felt artistic sensibility to each."

-Forbes
"Overspilling World may be a book that will draw you in with its strangeness to the point that you´ll want to buy it. I confess that I have spent more time with it than this review begins to reveal."

-Jack Miles, Los Angeles Review of Books
"Her camera captures fleeting impressions of perfectly imperfect moments and the resulting mysterious images captivate and hold your attention."

- Edward Goldman, Host of Art Talk on KCRW Radio

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