Signed, Mitch EPSTEIN (*1952) - State of the Union - 2010

A great opportunity to acquire the rare and sold-out photobook 'State of the Union' (2010) by the prominent American photographer Mitch Epstein as a SIGNED copy!

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Background information about the signed photo book 'State of the Union' by Mitch Epstein.

About the American photographer Mitch Epstein (*1952)

Mitch Epstein is regarded as one of the best American photographers. He studied art at the Williston Academy in Massachusetts and in the early 1970s at Union College in Schenectady, New York, as well as at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island. Garry Winogrand was his teacher at the Cooper Union in New York City. In the mid-1970s, he traveled across the United States and explored life there in all its facets. Most of the time, he worked in black and white, but occasionally also with color films. In 1978, he went to India and worked there as a producer and set designer for several films. From 1992 to 1995, he worked in Vietnam before returning to Holyoke, Massachusetts, after a photographic project about New York. The production of energy in the USA was his main focus from 1994 to 1999. Most recently, he revisited his works created in India.
Among the awards the American photographer 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 works are part of the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the Modern Tate.
Mitch Epstein has published more than a dozen photobooks to date, with over 50% of his titles now out of print.



Content

The out-of-print photobook 'State of the Union' by Mitch Epstein illustrates the development of his work through two very different photographic series:
'Recreation. American Photographs' (1973-1988) is rooted in the tradition of American street photography and depicts everyday situations that reveal fundamental aspects of life in the USA during the 1970s and 1980s. The openness of a pluralistic society is documented through the randomness of encounters, a openness that seems to have been lost decades later.
The series 'American Power,' begun in 2003, draws attention to one of America's central power factors: the energy industry, which impacts not only society but also nature, transforming both. Dominant and overwhelming in proportions, cooling towers and refinery buildings thrust themselves into the frame, degrading everything else to insignificant marginality.



Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2010. First and only edition.

Bound without dust jacket (as published). 375 x 250 mm. 120 numbered pages with 59 color photographs.

Condition: The book is in very good condition. Signed by Mitch EPSTEIN on the front endpaper with a cow's pen!