Mitch Epstein

Description:

"These pictures, made in the seventies and eighties, offer a window onto the beginning and breadth of Mitch Epstein's career. Most of these photographs are previously unpublished - culled from a body of work that addresses the theme of Americans at leisure." "Ordinary things here startle, while the extraordinary appears at perfect ease in the world. Teenage girls abandon a baby to fondle a snake; children sleep ass to the wind on a car in an open campground. People stake their private ground in public, if only for a moment - during which Epstein's camera finds them." "Gesture gives many of these pictures their pulse: tender hand, strained shoulder, swiveled hip. It isn't the fact of thirteen year olds smoking that shocks, but the grace and knowledge in the young fingers that hold the cigarettes."--BOOK JACKET

subjects: Artistic Photography,  Photography, Artistic,  Pictorial works,  Recreation,  Catalogs,  Family-owned business enterprises,  Holyoke (mass.),  Massachusetts, social conditions,  United states, social life and customs,  United states, pictorial works,  Vietnam, social life and customs,  Mumbai (india),  India, social life and customs,  India, pictorial works,  Documentary photography,  Vietnam, description and travel,  Photography, exhibitions,  Art, american,  Social conditions

People: Mitch Epstein (1952-)

Places: United States