The Players

The Players by Mark Steinmetz. First edition (2015). Large format hardcover in new condition. Signed by Mark Steinmetz. No markings. This is a new book. Please see pictures. PayPal accepted, any questions please get in touch.

About The Players

This long-awaited publication presents 73 of Mark Steinmetz’s photographs of adolescent and teenage baseball players in little league games. Furthermore, we see them on the field and in the dugout, focused on the game and lost in their own worlds. Made between 1986 and 1990, the photographs are classic Steinmetz because they present tenderness, humour, and humanism. As well as Steinmetz’s exquisite use of natural light and attention to poetic detail.

From the Introduction by Anne Tucker

“The kids in Steinmetz’s photographs are ages 6 to 13, with a few older boys. Steinmetz must remember how awkward and uncoordinated bodies that age can be. His empathy is evident throughout the series. Most of these kids are too young to have the grace, skill or concentration required and are too green to experience the sheer pleasure of knowing they are good, maybe really good, ballplayers in an unforgiving sport. These kids run into each other in pursuit of a fly ball. Hope drives their swings more than their awareness of the art of hitting...Steinmetz concentrates less on the players in the field than those outside the base lines who are waiting to play, or cooling off. He observes the managers as well as the spectators who love the game or one of the players, or who just have a free afternoon. He sees “high fives” as well as the “what were you thinking” moments. His photographs have all the skill and grace lacking in the players.”

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