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Artist's Name: Mitch Epstein
Preferred medium: multimedia
birth year: 1952
Nationality: US
City: New York

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Mitch Epstein belongs to a generation of photographers who explored the use of color photography as an extension of documentary photography - and as a subject in itself - during the 1970s. Mr. Epstein first developed his extraordinary sense of color in India, and color played a crucial role in his compelling series on Vietnam in the 1990s. A master of the medium and a mature artist at this stage of his career, Mr. Epstein began in 2003 to turn his formidable power to the subject of energy and its use in America. According to the artist, the series is not intended to be didactic. Nevertheless, at 70 inches by 92 inches, the huge size of these c-prints - the product of Mr. Epstein's impressive printing technique - makes a big, timely statement. In "Amos Coal Power Plant, Raymond, West Virginia" (2004), the camera overlooks a back yard with green grass, trees, and a small barn-shaped toolshed. The hourglass shape of a nuclear reactor looms over the scene, almost blocking out the sky. Exactly how close the power plant's stacks are to the community is made clearer in "Poca High School and Amos Plant, West Virginia" (2004), on an afternoon when football practice is under way. The viewer's attention darts between the students' brilliant red jerseys on the grassy field and the three busy, smoking reactor towers the next lot over. In a reticent but inquiring way, the photograph raises questions surrounding communities that pre-dated the influx of nuclear power.( The New York Sun)

important exhibitions from Mitch Epstein

Exhibition Location City Country Date
Mitch Epstein: STATE OF THE UNION Kunstmuseum Bonn Bonn DE 11.11.2010
Mitch Epstein, American power Musée de l´Elysée Lausanne CH 13.09.2011
Photography: New Documentary Forms Tate Modern London GB 01.05.2011
Migrations Tate Britain London GB 08.01.2012
EXPOSED - Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera since 1870 Walker Art Center Minneapolis US 21.05.2011
OUT OF FOCUS: PHOTOGRAPHY Saatchi Gallery London GB 25.04.2012
Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera Tate Modern London GB 28.05.2010
The More Things Change San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA San Francisco US 20.11.2010
Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA San Francisco US 30.10.2010
FotoFest Biennial Exhibitions Road to Nowhere FotoFest Houston Houston US 12.03.2010

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Galleries representing
Mitch Epstein:

Brancolini Grimaldi Florenz
Brancolini Grimaldi Rom
Galerie Thomas Zander
Rodolphe Janssen Galerie
Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
Yancey Richardson Gallery

Collections representing
Mitch Epstein

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA
Metropolitan Museum
MoCP- The Museum of Contemporary Photography
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA
The Art Institute of Chicago
The J. Paul Getty Museum
West Collection