Mitch Epstein: Work - Hardcover

Mitch Epstein

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3865212816 ISBN 13: 9783865212818

Publisher: Steidl, 2006

Synopsis

While Mitch Epstein is widely acknowledged as one of the world's most distinguished art photographers, a complete survey of his work has never been published until now. Mitch Epstein: Work invites readers to trace the evolution of Epstein's entire career, following formal and thematic concerns that reveal how his aesthetics, his techniques and his politics have shifted and influenced one another over time. His early work on recreation is given its most natural yet unexpected configuration: Images from the United States are mixed with those from other parts of the world. Each of his major projects cover Common Practice (1973-1989), Vietnam (1992-1995), The City (1995-1998), Family Business (2000-2003), and the current, ongoing American Power. The beginning of each chapter includes a short essay by the artist or an excerpt from his previously published writings. An afterword by Eliot Weinberger and a DVD of Epstein's film Dad round out the package. Many of the pictures here have never before been exhibited or published.

About this title

About the Author:

Mitch Epstein's photographs are in numerous major museum collections, including New York's Metropolitan Museum, Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. A recent Guggenheim Fellow, Epstein is currently at work on his new project, American Power, which will be exhibited at Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, in March 2007 and was recently featured in New York's International Center of Photography's triennial exhibition, "Ecotopia." There will also be a mid-career survey of his work in spring 2007 at Galerie Thomas Zander in Koeln, Germany. His work is currently featured at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Where We Live: Photographs of America from the Berman Collection and the Independent Curators International traveling exhibition, Shoot the Family. Epstein's six other books include Recreation: American Photographs 1973-1988 (Steidl 2005), Family Business, which received the 2004 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award (Steidl 2003), and The City (powerHouse Books, 2001). Mr. Epstein lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.

About this edition

• Publisher: Steidl
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 3865212816
• ISBN 13: 9783865212818
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 276