Steven B. Smith
in Caplan

EXHIBIT

Waiting Out the Latter Days

Rest stop | 400 Boulevard Perron Ouest | Caplan

Steven B. Smith, Barrington, United States | stevesmithphotography.net

Steven B. Smith is a photographer whose work chronicles the transition of the Western landscape into suburbia.

For that work he has been awarded the First Book Prize for Photography by the Honickman Foundation and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. His book The Weather and a Place to Live: Photographs of the Suburban West was published by Duke University Press in 2005. He has received numerous grants and awards, including Guggenheim, Kittredge and RISCA fellowships. His work has been widely exhibited and can be found in many public collections, such as New York’s Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art. Smith received a BFA from Utah State University and an MFA from Yale, and is a professor of photography at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 2015, his second monograph, Waiting out the Latter Days, was published by TIS Press.

EXHIBIT AT RENCONTRES

Waiting Out the Latter Days

Steven B. Smith presents, with Waiting out the Latter Days, a series of photographs suspended in time. It reveals scenes in which each human presence is captured in a singular light and seems fixed in a perpetual state of waiting. Taken during the Cold War in the state of Utah at the heart of the United States, the pictures catch ordinary times of popular events, scenes of families or individuals, encountered by chance in the streets and at public events. Together, these photographs, inhabited by anonymous men and women, draw a portrait both precise and enigmatic of American history, whose outlines seem more timeless and universal than ever.