Mitch Epstein
Mitch Epstein (* 1952 in Holyoke , Massachusetts , USA ) is an American photographer , film director and production designer .
Life
Epstein comes from a Jewish family and studied art at the Williston Academy in Massachusetts at the same time as author and artist Barry Moser . In the early 1970s he studied at Union College in Schenectady , New York , and at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence , Rhode Island . Garry Winogrand was his teacher at Cooper Union in New York City .
From the mid-1970s, Epstein traveled through the United States and explored life there in all its facets. Mostly he worked in black and white, but now and then with color films. In 1978 he went to India with his future first wife, the Indian director Mira Nair , whom he had met at Harvard . There he was a producer and set designer for several films. From 1992 to 1995 he worked in Vietnam before turning back to Holyoke, Massachusetts after doing a photo work about New York. The production of energy in the US was his next big topic from 1994 to 1999. He published his sometimes critical, realistic recordings in the volume American Power , which was published by Steidl in Göttingen.
In 2009 Epstein lived with his second wife, the author Susan Bell, for six months in Berlin as a scholarship holder of the American Academy in Berlin (scholarship holder of the Guna S. Mundheim Foundation).
The journalist Andreas Kilb calls Epstein "perhaps the most important photographic chronicler (s) of American life". At the same time, the von Epstein family "lost so many people in the Holocaust that a trip to Germany was taboo for a long time".
In 2014, Epstein lived in New York City with his wife and daughter .
Awards
- 2003: Guggenheim grant
- 2008: Berlin Prize in Arts and Letters from the American Academy in Berlin
- 2011: Growth Winner of the Prix Pictet of the Geneva banking house Pictet & Cie
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2011: Open Eye Gallery , Liverpool , England
- 2011: Musée de l'Elysée , Lausanne , Switzerland.
- 2011: Cartier-Bresson Foundation , Paris, France.
- 2010: Mitch Epstein. State of the Union. Art Museum Bonn , Bonn. Catalog.
Filmography
- 2003: Dad. Producer and director
- 1992: Mississippi Masala production design
- 1988: Salaam Bombay! Co-producer and production designer
- 1985: India Cabaret. photographer
Publications (selection)
- 2013: New York Arbor . Steidl, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86521-924-4 .
- 2011: Berlin. Steidl / American Academy in Berlin, Göttingen, ISBN 978-3-86930-224-9 .
- 2009: American Power. Steidl, Göttingen, ISBN 978-3-86521-924-4 .
- 2006: Work. Steidl, Göttingen, ISBN 3-86521-281-6 .
- 2005: Recreation: American Photographs. 1973–1988, ISBN 3-86521-084-8 .
- 2003: Family Business. Steidl, Göttingen, ISBN 3-88243-913-0 .
- 2002: The City. PowerHouse Books, New York, ISBN 1-57687-101-0 .
- 1997: Vietnam: A Book of Changes. WW Norton & Co., New York / Center for Documentary Studies, ISBN 0-393-04027-5 .
- 1996: Fire, Water, Wind: Photographs from Tenri . Tenrikyō Dōyūsha, Tenri-shi, Japan, ISBN 4-8073-0370-8 .
- 1987: In Pursuit of India. Aperture, New York, ISBN 0-89381-214-5 .
- Exhibition catalog
- 2010: Mitch Epstein. State of the Union. Hatje-Cantz, Ostfildern, ISBN 978-3-7757-2784-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Mitch Epstein in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website of the photographer
- Biography of the photographer
- Mitch Epstein at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biography and catalog raisonné
- Tate Modern : American Power Exhibition
- Prix Pictet Growth 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andreas Kilb : Look at this city! In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, December 1, 2011, p. R8. Epstein describes the victims of the family in the Holocaust in the preface to his book about Berlin.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Epstein, Mitch |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American photographer, film director and production designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Holyoke , Massachusetts , USA |