Mitch Epstein

American Power

American Power examines how energy is produced and used in the American landscape, and how energy influences American lives. Made on forays to production sites and their environs, these pictures question the power of nature, government, corporations, and mass consumption—as well as the power of looking—in the United States.

Mitch Epstein, Amos Coal Power Plant, Raymond City, West Virginia 2004 Courtesy of the artist
Mitch Epstein, Poca High School and Amos Coal Power Plant, West Virginia 2004 Courtesy of the artist
Mitch Epstein, Hoover Dam and Lake Mead, Nevada/Arizona 2007 Courtesy of the artist
Mitch Epstein, Century Wind Project, Blairsburg, Iowa 2008 Courtesy of the artist

Recreation

These photographs, made in the seventies and eighties, offer a window into the breadth of Mitch Epstein’s career. They are highlights from a body of work that goes back forty years. In this early work, the mundane startles, 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. These photographed rituals of boredom and excess, alienation and possibility, are a distillation of modern America.

Mitch Epstein, Cocoa Beach I, Florida 1983 Courtesy of the artist
Mitch Epstein, Madison Avenue, New York City 1973 Courtesy of the artist
Mitch Epstein, Massachusetts Turnpike 1973 Courtesy of the artist
Mitch Epstein, Miami Beach I, Florida 1976 Courtesy of the artist

Mitch Epstein

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