Mitch Epstein (born 1952 in Holyoke, Massachusetts) has gained renown over the last forty years for photographing the culture, landscape, and “American-ness” of the United States. Epstein has won numerous awards, including the Prix Pictet, the Berlin Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His work has been exhibited and published extensively in the United States and Europe, and collected by major museums, including New York's Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum, and Whitney Museum of American Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Tate Modern in London. His twelve books include the forthcoming Rocks and Clouds, as well as American Power and Family Business, for which he won the Krazna-Krausz Photography Book Award (2004). In 2013, the Walker Arts Center commissioned Epstein and cellist-composer Erik Friedlander to create a theatrical performance of American Power, which traveled to the Wexner Center for the Arts and Victoria and Albert Museum.
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