Mitch Epstein

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC announces a landmark gift of over 1,200 photographs by Mitch Epstein, one of the most important living American photographers, from the artist and his wife Susan Bell. Representing the full scope of Epstein’s five-decade career, the acquisition establishes the National Gallery as the most significant institutional repository for his work.

Over the course of his prolific career, Mitch Epstein has created an expansive body of work utilizing both richly saturated color and black-and-white with technical precision. His photographs examine American communities and the issues that affect them, from economic change to environmental crisis to civic protest, as well as more personal narratives, including his identity as the grandson of East European immigrants and life in his adopted home of New York City.