From Library Journal
With 85 full-page color and black-and-white photographs, Epstein (Vietnam: A Book of Changes), whose images are held by major museums and who has worked as a cinematographer and production designer on films such as Salaam Bombay!, presents his views of New York City between 1995 and 2001. Color photographs depict the commonplace, grittier sights of New York crumbling buildings, littered streets and sidewalks, graffiti-covered walls, a multicultural populace whereas the duotones are portraits of friends and colleagues. There are views taken from the intimate distance of one apartment building to another, as well as views across the city. The stark, often compelling images convey the isolation, loneliness, and tensions endemic to complex, densely packed urban locations. Unfortunately, there is no introductory essay or written statement by the photographer, two brief stanzas of poetry and the acknowledgments being the only textual material. An optional choice for general collections. Joan Levin, MLS, Chicago
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
As he moves from still life to street scenes to portraiture to abstraction, Mitch Epstein is continually reinventing the photographic form. Here he offers a fresh view of New York City. “Epstein captures magical, often subtly comic moments.” — The New York Times
© Mitch Epstein
