The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 15, 2025
Athens, Georgia
1996
(American, b. 1961)
Image: 30.4 x 41.9 cm (11 15/16 x 16 1/2 in.); Paper: 40.7 x 50.9 cm (16 x 20 1/16 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.)
Gift of Friends of Photography 2007.17
© Mark Steinmetz
Location: Not on view
Description
During the past two decades, Steinmetz has documented—with a cinematic sensibility—young people in the American South. His spare, monochromatic images chronicle the fleeting quality of adolescence in a manner in which time appears to have stopped. In this nocturnal scene, he tenderly recorded a girl resting on a parked car and surrounded by a familiar still life of soft drinks and cigarettes. This vignette has been played out continuously since the 1950s in towns all across America and made iconic by Hollywood movies.- Portraiture: American Photography 1960 to the Present. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 1-September 13, 2009).The Cleveland Museum of Art (06/01/2009 - 09/13/2009); "Portraiture: American Photography 1960 to the Present"
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