About the US photographer Mitch EPSTEIN (*1952 in Holyoke, Massachusetts).

Mitch EPSTEIN is considered one of the best color photographers in the United States. He studied art at Williston Academy in Massachusetts and in the early 1970s at Union College in Schenectady, New York, and at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island. Garry WINOGRAND was his teacher at Cooper Union in New York City. b the mid-1970s, Epstein traveled throughout the United States, exploring life there in all its facets. He worked mostly in black and white, but occasionally with color films. In 1978 he went to India and worked there as a producer and production designer for several films. From 1992 to 1995, he worked in Vietnam before returning to Holyoke, Massachusetts, after doing some photo work on New York. The production of energy in the United States became his next major subject from 1994 to 1999. His awards include the Prix Pictet, the Berlin Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship for "Family Business" (2002); he was recently inducted into the National Academy of Design. His work is part of the holdings of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the Modern Tate. 

Photobooks by and featuring works by Mitch EPSTEIN

  • 'New Color' (1981); 'In Pursuit of India' (1987); 'Vietnam (Worldwatch Environmental Alert)' (1996); 'fire water wind - Photographs from Tenri' (1995); 'Vietnam: A Book of Changes' (1996); 'The City' (2001); 'Family Business' (2003); 'Recreation' (2005, 2022); 'Work' (2006); 'American Power' (2011); 'State of the Union' (2011); 'Berlin' (2011); 'New York Arbor' (2013); 'Rocks and Clouds' (2017); 'Sunshine Hotel' (2019); 'Property Rights' (2021); 'In India' (2021); 'Silver + Chrome' (2022)

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This catalog contains two significant photo projects from American photographer Mitch EPSTEIN: 'Recreation' documents the openness of a pluralistic society. 'American Power' draws attention to one of America's central power factors, the energy industry.
from 39,80 € Weight 1.5 kg
'Silver + Chrome' contains earliest works by Mitch EPSTEIN, taken in N.Y., L.A. as well as New Orleans. With the OK of his teacher Garry WINOGRAND he documented from 1973 until 1976 the urban chaos of that complicated time alternately in color and in b/w.
70,00 € *
Offered here is a set of various photobook titles by American photographer Mitch EPSTEIN (b. 1952). Some of the titles in this set are out of print. The 'Little Mitch Epstein Photobook Library' consists of twelve titles.
1.250,00 € *
The photographs in out-of-print, large-formated 'New York Arbor' by Mitch EPSTEIN document the importance of trees to urban life in NYC, as well as their complex relationship with the residents. The superb printing makes viewing a breathtaking experience.
from 298,00 € Weight 1.6 kg
Who owns the land, by who nature itself. 'Property Rights' by US photographer Mitch EPSTEIN examines other forms of trespass and destruction. It includes the voices of activists he interviewed while making this deeply personal and political work.
65,00 € *
'Recreation' by Mitch EPSTEIN captures the vitality of the US from 1970s to the 1990s. The new edition is an extension: more than a third of the photos have never been published before, all have been faithfully re-edited to match the former image quality.
148,00 € Weight 2.4 kg
In 'American Power', Mitch EPSTEIN examines the concept of power. In the accompanying essay, he talks about how making these photographs led him to think more deeply about the role of the artist in a country teetering between collapse and transformation.
from 65,00 € Weight 1.6 kg
The photo volume 'Mitch Epstein. Work' offers a look at major projects from the 1970s to the 2000s: 'Common Practice,' 'Vietnam,' 'The City,' 'Family Business,' and 'American Power.' He begins each chapter with an essay or excerpt from earlier writings.
98,00 € Weight 1.8 kg
'Sunshine Hotel' by Mitch EPSTEIN brings together 175 photographs taken between 1969 and 2018 and traces both the development of the artist and the evolution of a country. It reveals his formal & thematic changes in line with America's changing zeitgeist.
68,00 € *
'In India' by Mitch EPSTEIN is the result of eight trips the US photographer made between 1978 and 1989. Because of his own Indian family life, he was both an in- & outsider in his work. So, he was thus able to immerse himself in a variety of subcultures.
from 55,00 €
Awards

Among the awards US photographer Mitch EPSTEIN has received to date are the Prix Pictet, the Berlin Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship for 'Family Business' (2002); he was recently inducted into the National Academy of Design. His work is part of the holdings of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the Modern Tate.