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Mitch Epstein: Work.
Photographs and text by Mitch Epstein.
Steidl,
Gottingen,
2006.
276 pp.,
138 color and 26 duotone illustrations,
9x10½".
Publisher's Description
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 allows readers to trace the
evolution of Epstein’s entire career, following formal and thematic concerns
that allow us to see 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. Sections on 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. Texts by writers Eliot Weinberger and Mia
Fineman and a DVD of Epstein’s film, Dad, round out the package. Many
of the pictures here have never before been exhibited or published. Other contributing
writers include Susanne Lange, Gabriele
Conrath-Scholl and Martin Hochleitner.
Published in conjunction with Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne.
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