Photographer Mitch Epstein,Capturing a Nation’s Thirst for Energy - Randy Kennedy for the NYT
Randy Kennedy for the NYT, "None of the pictures add up to anything like a simple polemic, but Mr. Epstein said that perhaps for the first time in his career, he felt the need to shed artistic detachment. He and his wife, Susan Bell, have designed public-service-type messages that they intend to place around the country, pairing some of the book’s images with literary quotations, like one from Mark Twain that hovers above a shot of a slab of new Nevada highway: “Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.”
“I have tried to convey in these pictures,” Mr. Epstein said, “the beauty and terror of early-21st-century America, as it clings to past comforts and gropes for a more sensible future.”
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