Mark Steinmetz

Exhibition in the frame of PhotoSaintGermain
10 - 13 November, 3-8 pm

Hôtel La Louisiane
60, rue de Seine
75006 Paris

Mark Steinmetz started his career at MoMA in 1993 when, at the age of 32, he was one of four artists selected for New Photography 9 (together with Christopher Giglio, Boris Mikhailov and Beat Streuli). Since then, he has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, published over 20 monographs, and taught at some of America’s top MFA programs, including Yale and Hartford. Although he has photographed extensively in Italy and France, the foundation of his oeuvre is his portraits and landscapes of the American South, his homeland for the last two decades.

Steinmetz does not pretend to be avant-garde or an inventor. His pictures are committed to a documentary-humanistic black-and-white tradition that he inherited and that he would like to preserve and continue for the younger generation. His influences and connections range from Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange to later descendants Robert Frank, William Gedney, Roy DeCarava, Nicholas Nixon, Diane Arbus, Robert Adams, Judith Joy Ross, Thomas Roma, Gerry Winogrand and Helen Levitt.

Kominek Gallery is showing a selection of works from South Trilogy, wich were created between 1991 and 2009 and are published by Nazraeli Portland.

His publications South East, Greater Atlanta and South Central are available at the the exhibition.