MARK STEINMETZ RESEARCH
TERMINUS(PHOTOBOOK):
- For the past few years, photographer Mark Steinmetz, based in Athens, has photographed in, around, and above Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, through which approximately 100,000,000 passengers, 1,000,000 flights, and 650,000 tons of cargo pass every year. Using the world’s most heavily trafficked airport as his home base, Steinmetz closely considers the activity and interactions that take place at this crossroads of the contemporary South. The exhibition is comprised of over 60 never-before-exhibited photographs.
- Mark Steinmetz is a leading Southern artist whose lyrical photographs capture the distinctive character of the region’s people and the peculiar beauty of its built environment.
- Always is shooting in black & white.
- Made a photobook for his final outcome called 'Terminus'
- His photographs capture moments of reverie amidst the flow of the everyday. His subject matter is the sort of quietly compelling detail that would normally go unnoticed – nuances of expression and gesture and setting, circumstances that unfold without drama, revealing something more enduring and profound.
- Consist of photographs with people and also photographs without people, for example it would be a photograph of the plane itself in the opening surroundings because it relates to the topic and subject matter of the book.
- Lyrical photographs capture the distinctive character of the region’s people and the peculiar beauty of its built environment.
- He has often been described as a photographer who photographs the “ordinary,” but when looking at his photographs one feels this characterization doesn’t approach what he’s accomplished. The subjects in his photographs may be ordinary, or as ordinary as anyone or anything is.
- In fact, when considering the people in his pictures one might imagine that they are waiting to meet a friend, are about to go home for lunch, or are just plain lost in thought, and the landscapes might otherwise seem unremarkable or common. But when Mark turns his attention to them, they seem to belong to him and through his lens, are relieved from their ordinariness. They are now described in what seems like a thousand shades of grey, existing in a glowing halo of sensuality and grace.
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