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9780893812140 | Aperture, October 1, 1987, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Gathers photographs of the Indian people and their daily life
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9780393040272 | W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 1996, cover price $35.00
New York isn't what it used to be, so why haven't New York's photographers and photographic books caught up with reality? Why do picture-makers continue to mimic the gritty glamour and aggression of William Klein's New York images, or stalk up and down Fifth and Madison Avenues paying peculiar homage to Garry Winogrand, or struggle to rediscover the romance of Nan Goldin's Lower East Side, on streets now clogged with Starbucks and designers' tenement-scaled emporia? What makes Mitch Epstein's most recent book, The City, particularly interesting is witnessing Epstein's attempt to breathe life back into a classic, albeit tired, genre. Instead of the usual raucous juxtapositions of visual clichésâpictures crammed with street corner sturm und drang and urban gargoylesâThe City's elliptical narrative unfolds quietly. There's a meditative, almost medicated calmness to the book's color still lifes and cityscapes: the droll display of overwrought deli cakes; a street festival shooting gallery's targets, featuring the faces of Timothy McVeigh, Amy Fisher and Hitler, offering discounted prices for kids; the sports jacket, carefully folded and placed on the grass in Central Park, whose banal but eerie presence suggests anything from a lunchtime nap to murder. To complicate matters, these images are interspersed with black-and-white portraitsâof Epstein's wife, daughter, friends and acquaintancesâthat are equally enigmatic. Some subjects smile; some look into the distance. Still others stare backâwith willful intent, or unable or uninterested in hiding their vulnerabilityâthrough the camera's lens. As complex and beautiful as Epstein's photographs of New York situations are, as intimate as his portraits might be, The City ultimately creates something surprising; the opportunity to ponder what photography can and cannot reveal about our public lives and our most private selves.By Marvin Heiferman
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9781576871225 | Collectors edition (Power House Books, May 1, 2001), cover price $350.00
9781576871010 | Power House Books, March 1, 2001, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: New York isn't what it used to be, so why haven't New York's photographers and photographic books caught up with reality?
Product Description: Mitch Epstein was 48 and living in New York when his mother called him about the fire. On a windy August night in 1999, two 12-year-old boys had broken into a boarded-up apartment building owned by Epstein's father in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and, just for the hell of it, set it ablaze...read more
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9783882439137 | Steidl / Edition7L, January 1, 2004, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Mitch Epstein was 48 and living in New York when his mother called him about the fire.
Product Description: Ordinary things here startle, while the extraordinary appears at perfect ease in the world. These pictures, made in the 1970s and 80s, offer a window into the beginning and breadth of Mitch Epstein's career. Most of these photographs are previously unpublished--culled from 15 years of work that addresses the theme of American recreation...read more
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9783865210845 | Steidl / Edition7L, April 1, 2005, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Ordinary things here startle, while the extraordinary appears at perfect ease in the world.
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9780916365738 | Independent Curators, March 15, 2006, cover price $19.95
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9783865219244, titled "American Power: American Power" | Steidl / Edition7L, October 31, 2009, cover price $75.00
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9783869302249 | Steidl / Edition7L, March 1, 2011, cover price $55.00
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9783775727846 | Bilingual edition (Hatje Cantz Pub, April 30, 2011), cover price $60.00
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9783869305813 | Steidl / Edition7L, March 30, 2013, cover price $68.00
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9783958290181 | Steidl / Edition7L, March 22, 2016, cover price $50.00
9783865212818 | Hardcover with CD edition (Steidl / Edition7L, November 15, 2006), cover price $50.00
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