NEW YORK.- The book “Family Business” by Mitch Epstein has just been published by Steidl Verlag, Germany. Mitch Epstein has been working on Family Business, a film and photographic project about his father and the demise of the family furniture store. The first exhibition of this work will be at Power House, a new contemporary arts center in Memphis, Spring 2003.  

Photography: Mitch Epstein’s photographs are in numerous major museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Currently a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, he has also received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council for the Arts, the Pinewood Foundation and Camera Works. Epstein has had twelve one man exhibitions in New York City. He has had several books published: Family Business (Steidl Verlag, fall 2003), The City (powerHouse Books, 2001), Vietnam: A Book of Changes (Norton/DoubleTake, 1996), Fire Water Wind (Tenrikyo Doyusha, 1995), and In Pursuit of India (Aperture, 1987).  

Commissions: Among Epstein’s editorial clients are the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Nest, Audubon, Conde Nast Traveler, Travel and Leisure, House and Garden, Fortune, Food and Wine, Book, and the Washington Post Magazine. Commercial clients include Prudential Properties, Cauldwell Wingate, Jan Krukowski & Co., Tenrikyo Doyusha, Suhrkamp, and Random House, Inc. He has done various private portrait commissions; and he has recently photographed the Philadelphia Orchestra and Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art for the purpose of advertising.