Mitch Epstein

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Mitch Epstein was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, 1952 and currently lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.

Mitch Epstein, Köln/Cologne, at Galerie Thomas Zander, March 2007

1 Photography career
2 Education
3 Film
4 Notable photographs
5 Recent Awards
6 Books
7 References
8 External links

[edit] Photography career

Mitch Epstein’s photographs are in numerous major museum collections, including New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Epstein’s new project, American Power, will be exhibited in New York at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in March 2007, and was recently featured in New York's International Center of Photography's triennial exhibition, "Ecotopia.” In the spring of 2007, there will be a mid-career survey of his work at Galerie Thomas Zander in Köln, Germany. His photographs are currently featured at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Where We Live: Photographs of America from the Berman Collection, and in Shoot the Family, an Independent Curators International traveling exhibition.

Epstein’s seven books include the recent retrospective monograph, Mitch Epstein: Work (Steidl, 2006), Recreation: American Photographs 1973-1988 (Steidl 2005), Family Business (Steidl 2003), which received the 2004 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award.

A Guggenheim Fellow, Epstein has also worked as a director, cinematographer, and production designer on several films, including Dad, Salaam Bombay!, and Mississippi Masala.

[edit] Education

In the 1970s he studied at The Cooper Union, New York, Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island, and Union College, New York. After school, Mitch Epstein began to travel across the world as well as America, focusing on color photography and natural irony.

[edit] Film

Producer and Director : Dad (2003)
Cinematographer and Production designer : Mississippi Masala (1992)
Cinematographer and Production designer : Salaam Bombay! (1988)
Director of Photography : India Cabaret (1985)

[edit] Notable photographs

“Biloxi, Mississippi” (2005)
“Dad and My Daughter, Lucia” (2002)
“Cocoa Beach 1, Florida, 1983” : New Yorker (Issue of 2005)
“Dad At His Office”, “Accounts Receivable”, “Dad’s Old Briefcase at the Store” : The New York Times Magazine (2003)