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Informationen zum Autor Mitch Epstein! 1952 in Holyoke! Massachusetts geboren! gilt er als einer der besten Farbfotografen der Vereinigten Staaten. Seine Arbeiten zählen zum Bestand des Museum of Modern Art! des Metropolitan Museum und des Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Seine letzten Buchveröffentlichungen waren In Pursuit of India; Vietnam: A Book of Changes und The City. Epstein wurde vielfach ausgezeichnet! u.a. 2002 mit einem Guggenheim Fellowship für Family Business. Klappentext In American Power! Mitch Epstein investigates notions of power! both electrical and political. His focus is on energy - how it gets made! how it gets used! and the ramifications of both. Zusammenfassung In American Power! Mitch Epstein investigates notions of power! both electrical and political. His focus is on energy - how it gets made! how it gets used! and the ramifications of both. From 2003 to 2008! he photographed at and around sites where fossil fuel! nuclear! hydroelectric! wind! and solar power are produced in the United States. The resulting photographs contain Epstein's signature complex wit! surprising detail! and formal rigor. These pictures illuminate the intersection between American society and American landscape. Here is a portrait of early 21st century America! as it clings to past comforts and gropes for a more sensible future. In an accompanying essay! Epstein discusses his method! and how making these photographs led him to think harder about the artist's role in a country teetering between collapse and transformation.
