Recreation
These photographs, made in the seventies and eighties, offer a window into the breadth of Mitch Epstein's career. They are highlights from a body of work that goes back forty years. In this early work, the mundane startles, while the extraordinary appears at perfect ease in the world. Teenage girls abandon a baby to fondle a snake; children sleep ass to the wind on a car in an open campground. These photographed rituals of boredom and excess, alienation and possibility, are a distillation of modern America.