{"product_id":"mitch-epstein-a-language-of-new-york-9783969993378","title":"Mitch Epstein: A Language of New York","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA photographic meditation on what it means to be a New Yorker: an identity that shifts as constantly and as rapidly as the city itself\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1995, renowned American photographer Mitch Epstein (born 1952) began making pictures in New York City as it underwent a seismic cultural and physical shift. The gritty neighborhoods and sassy unselfconsciousness of the 1970s, when Epstein had first moved to New York, were disappearing. Signs of the future were encroaching: surveillance cameras, the normalization of gun violence as a virtual reality game in Times Square and Disney's gentrification of the old theaters and strip clubs on 42nd Street. As a seasoned documentarian of the American landscape and psyche, Epstein set out to photograph the streets and public spaces of New York in this strange liminal space, between past and future. A year into the project, he also began making black-and-white portraits of his inner circle in their homes or workspaces as an intimate counterpoint to his color photographs of street life. \u003ci\u003eA Language of New York\u003c\/i\u003e examines the city's recurrent self-cannibalizing into a new upcycled landscape and the urban relationship between public and private. Both gimlet-eyed inquiry and loving homage, it describes an incredibly resilient city prone to cooperation, protest, consumerism and creativity in the extremes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Steidl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/11\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783969993378\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192","brand":"Mitch Epstein","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52715487494325,"sku":"9783969993378","price":55.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/mitch-epstein-a-language-of-new-york-9783969993378","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}