SOUTH EAST by Mark Steinmetz, Nazraeli Press

10.5 × 12 in
80 pages
Cloth hardcover with tip-in
Nazraeli Press, 2020

“Mark Steinmetz works in a venerable tradition of photographic prowling that bets everything on the ordinary. Each picture is the fruit of an unplanned encounter: Though the photographer may know more or less where he is going, he can’t know precisely what he will find. An accumulation of these improvised perceptions can make both a world and a way of looking at it.” —from the Introduction by Peter Galassi

Highly regarded for his black-and-white portraits, Steinmetz is renowned for producing powerful pictures which capture the strong sense of displacement and isolation that is felt by many young Americans. 

Designed as a companion book to his critically-acclaimed monograph South Central, Mark Steinmetz here turns his focus to Athens and Atlanta, New Orleans, Memphis and East Tennessee, and the roads between.

Originally published by Nazraeli Press between 2007 and 2009, Steinmetz's trilogy that offered a lyrical and evocative look at American culture and notions of progress (South Central, South East, and Greater Atlanta) had been an elusive goal for many libraries. In this new, remastered release, the format, sequence, and design remain true to the original printings. The materials, however, have been upgraded; the books are now bound in cloth over board, and printed in quadratone on a special matte art paper.