Recreation
Recreation, made in the seventies and eighties, affirms the breadth of Epstein's career. 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.