France 1987
Mark Steinmetz
Nazraeli Press
English
Hardcover
Edition of 1,000
80 pages
267 x 305 mm
2023
ISBN 9781590055960
“In the summer of 1987, I was 26 years old, a couple of years out of graduate school, and living in a derelict apartment outside of Boston. I had received an artist’s residency in the South of France, and so, in August, I flew to Paris. I stayed a few weeks with close family friends in a top-floor apartment on the Avenue de Wagram. My friends were working in fashion and film, and I was told my bed had once belonged to Jane Fonda before she became Barbarella. The weather was getting colder, and they gave me a brown corduroy jacket to wear that Jean Seberg (Godard’s Breathless, Preminger’s Bonjour Tristesse) had cried on. I would eat some breakfast and run around Paris photographing all day—hardly eating because I had no money—returning to their apartment for dinner and a glass of champagne. Later in the year, I went to the South to begin my artist’s residency at the Camargo Foundation, in Cassis, a town by the sea not far from Marseille. The writer Virginia Woolf, the pointillist Paul Signac, the fauvists André Derain and Raoul Dufy, and the Provençal poet Frédéric Mistral had spent extended periods of time in Cassis. I took day trips from Cassis to Arles, Aix, Marseille, and Nice, and could process my film in the simple darkroom that was supplied to me. In 1987, there were no cell phones or digital cameras. To meet up with someone, you had to set a time and a place and each of you had to stick to the plan. The seasons seemed to linger around more, and in general, everyone seemed to have more time. The parks, museums, and subways were less crowded. The rhythm of daily life was more relaxed. People were worried in 1987, but not as worried as we are now.” – From the Introduction by Mark Steinmetz
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About the Artist
Mark Steinmetz (b.1961) is an American photographer. He received a BA from Wesleyan University and an MFA from Yale University. He has had numerous books published by Nazraeli and his work is in the collections of major museums across the United States including the New York Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Steinmetz received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1994 and now lives in Athens, Georgia where he spends most of his time making photo books.
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About the Publisher
Founded in 1990, Nazraeli Press has published over 600 titles on the fine and applied arts. The press is known for its unorthodox use of common materials – such as papers, wood, plastic, metals – and for introducing elements of handwork into otherwise mass-produced objects. The press’s books have themselves been the subject of exhibitions and books about books.
Formats range from postcard-sized artist’s books to oversized monographs. In addition to traditionally-bound books, the press has published work in scroll format; loose cards in plexiglass boxes; portfolios of original photographs; and, since 2001, a subscription-based series of 16-page artist’s books, called “One Picture Books”, which was relaunched in an upscaled and upgraded format in 2018. Limited to 500 numbered copies, each “One Picture Book” contains a signed, original photograph by the featured artist.
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