{"title":"Mitch Epstein","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMitch Epstein\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a compelling journey through visual storytelling, capturing the nuances of places and moments with a keen artistic eye. His works, such as \u003cem\u003eIn India\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eProperty Rights\u003c\/em\u003e, explore the intersections of environment, culture, and identity, inviting readers to reflect on the complex narratives within contemporary landscapes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in \u003cem\u003eTravel \u0026amp; Adventure\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, Epstein’s collections blend photography and thoughtful observation, presenting intimate, layered perspectives on recreation, industrial change, and social history. These books provide both striking imagery and profound insights into the world’s evolving spaces.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"mitch-epstein-in-india-by-mitch-epstein-9783958299672","title":"Mitch Epstein: In India","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBetween 1978 and 1989, Mitch Epstein made eight trips to India and shot tens of thousands of photographs. He also made three films there with his Indian wife, director Mira Nair. The photographs in this book are the result of Epstein's unusual dual vantage in an extraordinarily complicated culture: through his Indian family life and work, he was both an insider and outsider.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEpstein was able to enter a wide swath of subcultures that included a striptease cabaret, the Royal Bombay Yacht Club, Bollywood movie sets, an old-time Punjabi wedding band, and religious pilgrims both Muslim and Hindu. \u003cem\u003eIn India\u003c\/em\u003e is the fruit of Epstein's deep and extended experience of India, where separate worlds converged.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072308691180,"sku":"9783958299672","price":115.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9210093483597.jpg?v=1765093757"},{"product_id":"mitch-epstein-silver-chrome-by-mitch-epstein-9783969990834","title":"Mitch Epstein: Silver + Chrome","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBetween 1973 and '76, Mitch Epstein photographed in American cities—New York, Los Angeles and New Orleans, among others. In 1973, he was initially shooting in black-and-white as a student of Garry Winogrand when he asked his teacher, \"Why not colour?\" With Winogrand's blessing, Epstein shot his first rolls of Kodachrome.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSilver + Chrome\u003c\/i\u003e is a chronicle of his three years alternating between colour and black-and-white, before eventually committing to colour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book contains Epstein's earliest work, virtually none of which has been seen before. In these kinetic tableaux, the artist's exuberance is tamed, just barely, by his formal intelligence. He depicts American city life as it undergoes taboo-shattering sexual liberation, economic crises and the repercussions of a boondoggle war in Vietnam, immersing us in the urban chaos of this complicated time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47383918805228,"sku":"9783969990834","price":160.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/13778553483601.jpg?v=1773388627"},{"product_id":"mitch-epstein-recreation-by-mitch-epstein-9783969990827","title":"Mitch Epstein: Recreation","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBetween the 1970s and '90s, Mitch Epstein photographed the rituals of excess and alienation, jubilance and desire that defined late twentieth-century America. These pictures marked the beginning of his photographic inquiry into the American psyche and landscape that has now lasted half a century. \u003cem\u003eRecreation\u003c\/em\u003e captures the vitality of modern America in a pre-smartphone, less self-conscious time. In these early works, Epstein's wit reigns, along with his singular way of making the mundane startle and the extraordinary appear to perfectly fit in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis new edition expands on the original \u003cem\u003eRecreation\u003c\/em\u003e book published by Steidl in 2005. More than a third of these photographs have never been published, and all of them have been re-worked with fidelity to the pictorial quality of the films of the era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47431636025580,"sku":"9783969990827","price":170.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783969990827.jpg?v=1774557466"},{"product_id":"mitch-epstein-property-rights-by-mitch-epstein-9783958299016","title":"Mitch Epstein: Property Rights","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho owns the land, by whose authority, and with what rights? These questions led Mitch Epstein to make \u003cem\u003eProperty Rights\u003c\/em\u003e, a collection of photographs and short texts examining the American government's ongoing legacy of property confiscation, and how communities gather to resist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEpstein began this series in 2017 at Standing Rock, where thousands protested the installation of the Dakota Access Pipeline on Sioux land. Over four years, he charted other contested lands from Pennsylvania and Hawaii to the Mexican border, as well as land loss through wildfires and flooding due to egregious environmental negligence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn keeping with Epstein's 50-year exploration of American life, \u003cem\u003eProperty Rights\u003c\/em\u003e questions the relationship between institutions, civil rights, and the rights of nature itself. Acknowledging our bodies and lives as our most fundamental property, the book examines other forms of trespass and destruction in an elegy to the Tree of Life Synagogue massacre, and in photographs of Black Lives Matter protests during Covid-19.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eProperty Rights\u003c\/em\u003e includes the voices of activists Epstein interviewed while making this deeply personal and political work. In a time of alarming division, the book describes diverse communities in a common fight against politicians and plutocrats willing to sacrifice the people's well-being.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47597063536876,"sku":"9783958299016","price":147.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783958299016-mitch-epstein-property-rights.jpg?v=1777946340"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/mitch-epstein.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}