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Mitch Epstein recently completed Family Business (Steidl, 2003), a film and photographic project about his father and the demise of the family furniture store. The first exhibition of this work was premiered at Power House, a new contemporary arts center in Memphis, Tennessee in spring 2003. In 2004 the project has also been shown at Art Cologne, Germany; Yancey Richardson, New York; PhotoEspana, Madrid; Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France; Jackson Fine Arts, Atlanta; and at BrancoliniGrimaldi, Florence.
Epstein's next book is Recreation: American Photographs 1973-1988 (Steidl, 2005). A portfolio of dye transfer prints from this project will be shown at the Brent Sikkema gallery in April 2005.
Photography:
Mitch Epstein's photographs are in numerous major museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Recently a Guggenheim Fellow, he has also received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council for the Arts, the Pinewood Foundation and Camera Works. Epstein has had twelve one man exhibitions in New York City. His several published books include: Family Business (Steidl, 2003), The City (powerHouse Books, 2001), Vietnam: A Book of Changes (Norton/DoubleTake, 1996), Fire Water Wind (Tenrikyo Doyusha, 1995), and In Pursuit of India (Aperture, 1987).
Commissions:
Among Epstein's editorial clients are the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Nest, Audubon, Conde Nast Traveler, Travel and Leisure, House and Garden, Fortune, Food and Wine, Book, and the Washington Post Magazine. Commercial clients include Prudential Properties, Cauldwell Wingate, Jan Krukowski & Co., Tenrikyo Doyusha, Suhrkamp, and Random House, Inc. He has done various private portrait commissions; and he has recently photographed the Philadelphia Orchestra and Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art for the purpose of advertising.
Film:
Epstein has worked as a cinematographer, production designer, and producer on several award-winning films, among them Salaam Bombay! and Mississippi Masala.
Epstein lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.
