Buena Vista, Colorado 1988

There are few ideas more central to American mythos, and to the traditions of American photography itself, than the great American road trip. Throughout his 50-year career, the photographer Mitch Epstein has ventured throughout the country seeking the nexus points that define American identity in all its strange and unexpected contradictions. Photographed throughout the 70s and 80s, Epstein’s Recreation surveys the rituals of pleasure and undercurrent of alienation that defined late twentieth-century America. The breadth of places and subjects Epstein explored take the form of a visual epic that spans from coast to coast and across social and cultural divides. Throughout the series, the pho...View all