Mitch Epstein

By Mitch Epstein

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

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 Most of these photographs are previously unpublished - culled from a body of work that addresses the theme of Americans at leisure."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