Mark Steinmetz
Mark Steinmetz (b. 1961) is an American film photographer whose work is shot primarily in black-and-white. His photographs of everyday life are deeply influenced by Southern writers and his natural interest in how people inhabit space. Working in series, he has concentrated on such subjects as kids and teenagers, small American towns, summer camp, schoolteachers, and street scenes in Paris and various Italian cities.
Steinmetz was a 1994 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient and has shown his photographs in dozens of solo and group exhibitions since. To date, he has published thirteen monographs. Steinmetz’s work is kept in a number of collections, including that of the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York); the Hunter Museum of American Art (Chattanooga, TN); the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York); the Art Institute of Chicago; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City); and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. He has lived and worked in Athens, Georgia since 1999.