Made between 1984 and 1991, Mark Steinmetz’s *Summertime* observes children and teenagers absorbed in the unscripted activities of an American summer. They ride bicycles, gather outdoors and occupy their neighborhoods with a freedom that now appears historically specific. Steinmetz’s black-and-white portraits do not turn these young subjects into emblems of innocence; instead, they attend to posture, attention and the uncertain social space between childhood and adolescence.

The period matters. These photographs precede the everyday presence of digital devices and evoke a time when children commonly moved through public space with less adult supervision. Yet the book is not simply an exercise in nostalgia. Its subject is also the way summer changes the experience of time: activity and idleness coexist, while ordinary streets and yards become temporary worlds. Light, gesture and chance give the pictures their atmosphere rather than any overt narrative.

First published in 2011 after Steinmetz’s South Central trilogy, *Summertime* returns here in a remastered and greatly expanded edition from Nazraeli Press. Thirty previously unpublished photographs broaden the original selection. The images are printed in duotone on natural art paper and presented in a casebound volume, choices suited to the tonal distinctions and quiet observational register of the work. The edition is limited to 2,000 copies.

For a serious photobook collection, this edition is notable less as an object of scarcity than as a reconsideration of a sustained body of work. It brings additional material into a project made across seven years and places Steinmetz’s study of youth within a recognizable shift in American social life. The book’s significance lies in that conjunction: formally restrained portraiture, a precisely bounded historical moment and an expanded editorial account of how childhood once occupied the street.