{"product_id":"mitch-epstein-mitch-epstein-9783969993378","title":"Mitch Epstein: A Language of New York","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA photographic meditation on what it means to be a New Yorker: an identity that shifts as constantly and as rapidly as the city itself\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1995, renowned American photographer Mitch Epstein (born 1952) began making pictures in New York City as it underwent a seismic cultural and physical shift. The gritty neighborhoods and sassy unselfconsciousness of the 1970s, when Epstein had first moved to New York, were disappearing. Signs of the future were encroaching: surveillance cameras, the normalization of gun violence as a virtual reality game in Times Square and Disney's gentrification of the old theaters and strip clubs on 42nd Street. As a seasoned documentarian of the American landscape and psyche, Epstein set out to photograph the streets and public spaces of New York in this strange liminal space, between past and future. A year into the project, he also began making black-and-white portraits of his inner circle in their homes or workspaces as an intimate counterpoint to his color photographs of street life. \u003ci\u003eA Language of New York\u003c\/i\u003e examines the city's recurrent self-cannibalizing into a new upcycled landscape and the urban relationship between public and private. Both gimlet-eyed inquiry and loving homage, it describes an incredibly resilient city prone to cooperation, protest, consumerism and creativity in the extremes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mitch Epstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3969993377\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783969993378\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Steidl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/11\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Mitch Epstein","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46311198130431,"sku":"9783969993378","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_47d12ac2-892f-4aec-af6d-0d6df1d76ba1.jpg?v=1730888812","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mitch-epstein-mitch-epstein-9783969993378","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}