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(STEINMETZ, MARK). Steinmetz, Mark. Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2016. First Edition - Artist Proof. Small Folio. Cloth in Slipcase with Pictorial Pastedown. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.

"Angel City West" offers a touching, highly personal look at Los Angeles through the eyes of Mark Steinmetz as a young artist straight out of school. In his preface to the work, Steinmetz describes living in a studio apartment in the Miracle Mile district, complete with a futon surrounded by a dozen roach motels and a makeshift darkroom set up in a tiny nook off of the bathroom. It didn’t take long before he ran into Garry Winogrand, for whom he became a kind of unofficial chauffeur, enabling Winogrand to photograph through the car window while Steinmetz navigated the streets of his new home town. Viewed together in book form, the fifty-eight photographs presented in Angel City West document Steinmetz finding his own voice as an artist. In light of the later projects for which he has become so well known, this early series of street photographs, informal portraits and landscapes foreshadows the sometimes humorous, oftentimes sad, and always poignant mood that runs through Mark Steinmetz’s work. A brand new, most handsome in the publisher's slipcase unnumbered artist-proof example of the second of Mark Steinmetz' three installments in the NZ Library SIGNED by the photographer on the rear cover, as issued.

978-1-59005-455-0 Inventory Number: E000MSACW2