American photographer Mark Steinmetz photographed the people and environs of Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport between 2012 and 2019 as part of the High Museum of Art’s Picturing the South series, a photographic archive that examines a range of themes specific to the American South. <\/p>\n
The 64 black-and-white images in ATL emphasize \u00abthe quiet transitional moments in this liminal world,\u00bb writes curator Gregory J. Harris in the volume’s introduction. Steinmetz captures \u00abthe more introspective moments\u00bb of travel in and out of the world’s most heavily trafficked airport and includes travelers of all ages \u00ableaving one chapter of their lives and going to another,\u00bb as the artist stated in a 2019 interview at the museum. Airline pilots, ground personnel, flight attendants, and janitors are also pictured, always working, often waiting; they share a space with the travelers but remain apart. <\/p>\n
Steinmetz also turns his focus to the open spaces around the airport, presenting vast, overgrown, and often unpeopled areas that provide a sharp contrast to the busy workings of the airport and its constantly changing population. A selection of images taken from aircraft windows depict the graphic beauty of clouds, light streaks, and jet trails, echoing the \u00absense of levity and mystery\u00bb felt by those traveling, as well as those viewing the photographs. <\/p>\n
Though taken over a period of years, this collection of images evokes the distinct timelessness of air travel, \u00abcapturing ordinary yet captivating human dramas that play out in the public spaces across the airport.\u00bb ATL is the 15th volume of Mark Steinmetz’s work published by Nazraeli Press. <\/p>\n
Born in 1961, Mark Steinmetz lives in Athens, Georgia. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, with work in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. ATL opens with an introduction by Gregory J. Harris, Keough Family Curator of Photography at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. He graduated from Yale’s MFA photography program in 1986. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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