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Ybor City, Florida, 1983
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Mitch EpsteinAmerican Photographer · 1952–present
All works by this person →> I'm especially intrigued . . . how everyday life can adopt a quality of myth when photographed. In this manner, myth can become a language of its own, and . . . illuminate that which is poignantly and simply human . . . > > --Mitch Epstein For more than three decades, Mitch Epstein has made large-scale color photographs that capture moments of transcendent beauty in everyday life, whether in sma
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- negative 1983; print 1995
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A colorful, patriotic study in red, white, and blue, this family portrait offers an homage to Walker Evans's Depression-era depictions of hard-working families in rural Alabama. Mitch Epstein made this photograph of a family in Ybor City, Florida, as part of his 1980s series on East Coast vacation spots, from Martha's Vineyard to the Florida Keys.
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