11 Facts About Mark Steinmetz

Mark Christopher Steinmetz was born on 1961 and is an American photographer.

Mark Steinmetz makes black and white photographs "of ordinary people in the ordinary landscapes they inhabit".

Mark Steinmetz's work is held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Hunter Museum of American Art, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art and Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

Mark Steinmetz was born in New York City and raised in the Boston suburbs of Cambridge and Newton until he was 12.

Mark Steinmetz then moved to the midwest before, aged 21, he went to study photography at the Yale School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut.

Mark Steinmetz left that MFA program after one semester and in mid 1983, aged 22, moved to Los Angeles in search of the photographer Garry Winogrand, whom he befriended.

Mark Steinmetz moved to Athens, Georgia in 1999 and was still living and working there as of 2017.

Mark Steinmetz makes photographs "of ordinary people in the ordinary landscapes they inhabit", and "in the midst of activity".

Mark Steinmetz's books combine portraits and candid photos of people, and include animals and still life photos.

Mark Steinmetz finds many of his subjects whilst walking around but he has spent time at Little League Baseball and summer camps.

Mark Steinmetz has mostly worked the same way with the same film, chemicals, and cameras since beginning in the mid 1980s.